Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Oxalis radicosa
Common name
Tap-rooted oxalis
Family
Oxalidaceae
Where found
Variety of habitats. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.3 m tall or creeping, but not rooting at the nodes. Stems moderately to densely hairy. Hairs on the stems spreading and/or pointing down (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Often has a stout woody taproot. Leaves alternating along the stems, each with 3 bilobed leaflets 0.2-1.5 cm long, 3-15 mm wide, hairy to hairless above, hairy below, margins fringed, the lobe tips rounded, 2–8 mm apart. Stipules inconspicuous. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 6-12 mm long. Flowers in 2–4-flowered clusters. Seed cases 7–22 mm long, 2–3 mm in diameter, cylindrical, usually densely hairy with hairs pointing down, rarely with occasional spreading hairs as well (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Flowers Spring to Autumn.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Oxalis~radicosa (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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