Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Oxalis purpurea
Common name
Large-flower Wood-sorrel
Family
Oxalidaceae
Where found
Grassy areas, gardens, and roadsides. Sydney area. Coastal south to Bermagui. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb, stem very short. Bulbs oval, 1–3.5 cm long, pointed, outer surface blackish brown. Bulbils formed on the rhizome. Leaf stalks 1–17 cm long, usually densely hairy. Leaves mostly 5–20 per plant. Leaves basal, with three leaflets 0.5–4.5 cm long, 5–50 mm wide, tips rounded or sometimes notched, surfaces green and hairless above, often purplish below with many translucent dots and streaks, often hairy, margins fringed. Stipules membranous, to about 4 mm long, abruptly tapering into the leaf stalks. Flowers with 5 petals, 10–40 mm long, pink to purple, sometimes white, often yellow or white at the base. Flowers single, on usually densely hairy stalks shorter than or scarcely longer than the leaves. Flowering: April–November. Seed cases not known in Australia.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Oxalis~purpurea (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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