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woody-root woodsorrel
Oxalis perennans
Oxalis perennans, known as native oxalis, native sorrel or grassland wood-sorrel, is a species of flowering plant in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae. A small yellow-flowered perennial herb with a stout taproot and three-parted leaves, it is native plant to Australia, where it grows in every state and in the Northern Territory. It is also recorded in New Zealand, where it is regarded as introduced.
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Description
Oxalis perennans is a perennial herb about 0.05–0.3 m high, anchored by a thick woody taproot. The yellow flowers are held clear of the leaves by slender stems. The stems grow to about 25–30 cm long. Each leaf has three leaflets that are notched at the tip. These leaflets are sometimes tinged purplish. Fruits are narrow, and more or less cylindrical. Fruit capsules are 8–30 mm long. It is a host plant of the rarely seen Small Copper butterfly (Lucia limbaria).
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 353868.