Plant Type
Herb/Forb, Annual, Herbaceous Perennial, Perennial, Weed, Wildflower, Annual or perennial much branched herb 10–30 cm. high., Herb
Lifespan
Perennial, Annual
Flower
Small, 5-parted yellow flowers with a lemony flavor., Flowers in 1–6-flowered pseudumbels; peduncles axillary, 1–8 cm. long, about as long as the petioles, pubescent or glabrous, ascending; bracts 2–many, linear-lanceolate, 2–4 mm. long, acute to acuminate, pilose; pedicels 7–15 mm. long.
Fruit
Tapered capsules that burst open to fling seeds when ripe. Unripe fruits have a tart flavor., Capsule linear-oblong, usually abruptly narrowing at apex, (4–)9–17 mm. long, puberulous.
Birds
Bees
Butterflies
Moths
Small Mammals
Songbirds
Order
Oxalidales
Family
Oxalidaceae
Genus
Oxalis
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