Oxalis pes-caprae L.
African wood-sorrel, African woodsorrel, African woodsorrel, Bermuda Buttercup
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Summary
Oxalis pes-caprae is a species of tristylous yellow-flowering plant in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae. Oxalis cernua is a less common synonym for this species. It is commonly known as African wood-sorrel, Bermuda buttercup, Bermuda sorrel, buttercup oxalis, Cape sorrel, English weed, goat's-foot, sourgrass, soursob, or soursop; Afrikaans: suring; Arabic: hommayda (حميضة).
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About the genus · Oxalis
Oxalis is a large genus of flowering plants in the wood-sorrel family, Oxalidaceae, comprising over 550 species. The genus occurs throughout most of the world, except for the polar areas; species diversity is particularly rich in tropical Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa.
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Also known as Acetosella abyssinica (Walp.) Kuntze; Acetosella cernua (Thunb.) Kuntze; Acetosella ehrenbergii (Schltdl.) Kuntze; Bolboxalis cernua (Thunb.) Small; Bulboxalis cernua (Thunb.) Small and 26 more.
Cultivation
Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Oxalis, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.
Climate across the habitat
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Photographs
Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0 (4); (c) Amelia Tauber, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) zebedeugalinha, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).
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Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Oxalis pes-caprae, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Other Oxalis 7 in the reference
Oxalis articulata Pink Oxalis
Oxalis corniculata 'ihi
Oxalis debilis Large-Flowered Pink-Sorrel
Oxalis latifolia Broad-leaved Sorrel
Oxalis spiralis spiral sorrel
Oxalis tetraphylla Fleshy Yellow-sorrel
Oxalis triangularis Wood sorrel History & registers
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