Oxalis bowiei

Bowie's wood-sorrel, Bowie's Wood-Sorrel

Family: Oxalidaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Bowie's wood-sorrel is a naturalized perennial found in the Southern California Coast and Sacramento Valley regions in gardens and disturbed areas at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering from April to June and October to December, this plant produces delicate pink flowers up to 2.5 centimeters long with distinctive umbel-like clusters. Growing with essentially no visible stem, it emerges from a bulb that creates a contractile root system. Its basal leaves feature 1 to 5 centimeter wide-obovate leaflets that are entire or have a shallow notch at the tip, with sparse or absent hairs. The plant is characterized by two types of hairs - long soft wavy and short glandular - which contribute to its unique botanical profile.

Habitat: Gardens, disturbed areas, generally not persisting

Bloom period: Apr-Jun, Oct--Dec

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: ScV, SCo

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