Oxalis californica

California wood-sorrel

Family: Oxalidaceae · Type: perennial · Native

California wood-sorrel is a California native perennial found in the southwestern California bioregions in coastal scrub and chaparral habitats at elevations below 2,035 meters. Flowering from February to June, this plant produces yellow-orange flowers that dry reddish, with blossoms 8 to 12 millimeters long and purple-tinged sepals. Growing with decumbent to erect stems less than 40 centimeters tall, it has sparse appressed or arched hairs along its slender stems. Its leaves feature small leaflets less than 1.5 centimeters long, covered in appressed hairs, growing on petioles shorter than 7 centimeters. The fruit is 10 to 15 millimeters long, with simple, short, and appressed hairs rarely becoming multicellular.

Habitat: Coastal scrub, chaparral

Bloom period: Feb-Jun

Elevation: < 2035 m

Bioregions: SW (exc SnBr, SnJt)

California counties: Santa Barbara, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.