Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Oxalis chnoodes
Common name
Downy Wood-sorrel
Family
Oxalidaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, rocky sites, and along streams. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb, sprawling, sometimes creeping. Stems to 0.4 m long, sparsely to densely hairy, with spreading and/or backward pointing hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Stems root at the nodes. Roots fibrous. Bulbs and bulbils absent. Leaves in clusters along the stems, compound, with 3 bilobed leaflets, each leaflet 0.4–1.4 cm long, 4–16 mm wide, surfaces sparsely to densely hairy above, more densely hairy and purple below, the lobe tips rounded, 2–12 mm apart. Stipules usually conspicuous, about 1.5 mm long, rounded to squared off, usually densely hairy, margins densely hairy. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 6–12 mm long. Flower stalks densely hairy. Flowers in clusters of 1–4 flowers. Flowering: May–December. Seed cases short, almost round to oval, 7–9 mm long, 1.5–4 mm in diameter, hairy with short backward pointing hairs and longer overlying spreading hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see).
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Oxalis~chnoodes (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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