General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Plant Height: 12"
Leaves: Evergreen
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Other: Blooms intermittently throughout the year; some oxalis will bloom all year if given enough light
Uses: Groundcover
Dried Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Birds
Toxicity: Other: All plants containing oxalic acid can be toxic to humans if enough is ingested.
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Offsets
Bulbs
Other: bulblets, tubers
Pollinators: Self
Various insects
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Goes Dormant

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Common names
  • Yellow Wood Sorrel
  • Pickle Plant
  • Upright Yellow Sorrel
  • Sheep Weed
  • Sourgrass
  • Wood-Sorrel
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Oxalis dillenii
  • Synonym: Oxalis stricta
  • Synonym: Oxalis europaea
  • Synonym: Xanthoxalis brittoniae
  • Synonym: Xanthoxalis florida

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Location: My garden in SoCal.
Date: 2019-01-15
Location: Illinois, US
Date: 2017-06-11
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2021-01-03
Indoors under lights, leaves & stems turning red.
Location: West Valley City, UT
Date: 2017-05-06
Location: Aberdeen, NC Pages Lake park
Date: April 20, 2023
Stems, at least the flowering ones, erect; peduncles usually more
Location: Fairfax, VA | September 2022
Date: 2022-09-05
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: March 14,  2022
Creeping Wood Sorrell #107; RAB p. 648, 100-1-4; LHB p. 600, 100-
Location: Tarlton
Date: 2018-06-03
Location: Illinois, US
Date: 2017-06-11
Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2012-03-18
Four Good Luck!
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: March 14,  2022
Creeping Wood Sorrell #107; RAB p. 648, 100-1-4; LHB p. 600, 100-
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: March 14,  2022
Creeping Wood Sorrell #107; RAB p. 648, 100-1-4; LHB p. 600, 100-

Photo: Dave Moore
Location: Opp, AL
Date: 2015-06-04
Location: Opp, AL
Date: 2015-06-04
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C.
Date: 2017-08-19
 6:35 pm. This oxalis has invaded the core of Daylily Little Bit
Location: Illinois, US
Date: 2017-06-11
Location: Illinois, US
Date: 2017-06-13
Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-03-09
Location: Norhteastern, Texas
Date: Nov 25, 2009 12:25 AM
Location: Tarlton
Date: 2018-06-03
Location: Ponta do Pargo - Madeira
Date: 2023-04-23
Location: Ponta do Pargo - Madeira
Date: 2023-04-23
Location: Norhteastern, Texas
Date: May 23, 2010
Location: Illinois, US
Date: 2017-06-14
Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-03-09
Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-03-09
Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-03-09
as fine as hair
Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-03-09
Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-03-09
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-04-19
teeny tiny seeds
Location: zone 8 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-04-19
seed pods - they explode & disburse seed far!
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