Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Oxalis incarnata
Common name
Pale Wood-sorrel
Family
Oxalidaceae
Where found
Bushland, gardens, roadsides, and disturbed sites. Coastal.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 0.3 m high, or sprawling. Rhizome slender, 3–8 cm long. Bulbs oval, about 2 cm long, pointed, outer surface brown. Bulbils formed on the rhizome and at the bases of the leaves. Stems branching, hairless or very sparsely hairy. Leaves numerous, mostly crowded at the ends of the stems, in pseudowhorls of 4–10, with three bilobed leaflets 0.5–1.5 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, the lobe tips rounded, 7–10 mm apart, surfaces green, lower surface often greyish, hairless, near-marginal protuberances present. Stipules membranous, to about 3 mm long, tapering into the leaf stalks. Flowers with 5 petals each 13–22 mm long, more or less white, very pale mauve, or pale pinkish purple, greenish at the base. Flowers single. Seed cases not known in Australia.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Oxalis~incarnata (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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