Oxalis suksdorfii

Suksdorf's wood-sorrel

Family: Oxalidaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Suksdorf's wood-sorrel is a California native perennial found in the northern California Coast Ranges in dry, shrubby or wooded areas at elevations below 700 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces delicate yellow flowers 12 to 20 millimeters long in small umbel-like clusters. Growing with slender stems less than 25 centimeters tall that trail or grow upright and are slightly hairy, it has a distinctive taproot and occasional underground stolons. Its leaves have three leaflets, each less than 2 centimeters long, with petioles shorter than 5 centimeters. The fruit is an oblong capsule 1 to 1.5 centimeters in length.

Habitat: Dry, shrubby or wooded areas

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: < 700 m

Bioregions: NCo

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