text: Plant Type: This is a herbaceous plant, it is a perennial which can reach 100cm in height (39inches). Usually much lower, but erect, with few if any branches. The stems can be covered with long tapering hairs.
  Leaves: The leaves are alternate. Leaves can be as wide as 6.5 cm (2.5inches). Each leaf is divided into three heart shaped leaflets the point of the leaf toward the stem and the notch outward in the manner of a clover leaf. The edge of the leaf is sometimes purple. The leaves do not seem to fold as do other Oxalis species.
  Flowers: The flowers have 5 Regular Parts and are up to 3.6cm wide (1.4 inches). They are yellow with traces or red in the center. Blooms first appear in mid spring and continue into early summer. They are in a cyme with only a few flowers.
  Range: East of the Missisippi River south of the Great Lakes to south Georgia
  This Woodsorrel differs from most of our others in being an erect plant and is much larger.
  Oxalis stricta - detail of stem © Daniel Reed
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