page_title: Oxalis
section_title: Selected species
hierarchical_section_title: Oxalis / Selected species
caption_attribution_description: Oxalis spiralis vulcanicola
context_page_description: Oxalis or is a large genus of flowering plants in the wood-sorrel family Oxalidaceae comprising about 570 species. The genus occurs throughout most of the world, except for the polar areas; species diversity is particularly rich in tropical Brazil, Mexico and South Africa.
  Many of the species are known as wood sorrels as they have an acidic taste reminiscent of the sorrel proper, which is only distantly related. Some species are called yellow sorrels or pink sorrels after the color of their flowers instead. Other species are colloquially known as false shamrocks, and some called sourgrasses. For the genus as a whole, the term oxalises is also used.
context_section_description: Sources USDA, Nesom
  Oxalis acetosella – common wood sorrel, stabwort
  Oxalis adenophylla – Chilean oxalis, silver shamrock
  Oxalis albicans – hairy woodsorrel, white oxalis, radishroot woodsorrel, radishroot yellow-sorrel, California yellow-sorrel
  Oxalis albicans var. pilosa formerly O. pilosa 
  Oxalis alpina – alpine sorrel
  Oxalis ambigua
  Oxalis amblyosepala
  Oxalis amplifolia now considered O. drummondii 
  Oxalis arborea Hort.
  Oxalis arenia
  Oxalis articulata Savign. – pink-sorrel
  Oxalis articulata ssp. rubra  (St.Hil.) Lourteig
  Oxalis ausensis
  Oxalis barrelieri – lavender sorrel
  Oxalis bowiei – Bowie's wood-sorrel, Cape shamrock
  Oxalis brasiliensis
  Oxalis bulbocastanum
  Oxalis caerulea – blue woodsorrel
  Oxalis caprina
  Oxalis carnosa
  Oxalis callosa
  Oxalis chnoodes
  Oxalis commutata
  Oxalis compressa
  Oxalis comptonii
  Oxalis convexula
  Oxalis corymbosa
  Oxalis corniculata – creeping wood sorrel, procumbent yellow-sorrel, sleeping beauty, chichoda bhaji (India)
  Oxalis crassipes – white wood sorrel
  Oxalis debilis Kunth
  Oxalis debilis var. corymbosa (DC.) Lourteig – large-flowered pink-sorrel (Synonym : O. corymbosa)
  Oxalis decaphylla – ten-leaved pink-sorrel, tenleaf wood sorrel
  Oxalis dehradunensis
  Oxalis depressa
  Oxalis dichondrifolia – peonyleaf wood sorrel
  Oxalis dillenii Jacquin – southern yellow woodsorrel, Dillen's woodsorrel, Sussex yellow-sorrel
  Oxalis drummondii – Drummond's woodsorrel, chevron oxalis
  Oxalis ecuadorensis
  Oxalis eggersii – Egger's wood-sorrel
  Oxalis engleriana
  Oxalis enneaphylla – scurvy-grass sorrel
  Oxalis exilis – least yellow-sorrel
  Oxalis fabaefolia
  Oxalis flava
  Oxalis florida
  Oxalis fourcadei Salter
  Oxalis frutescens – shrubby wood-sorrel
  Oxalis frutescens ssp. angustifolia
  Oxalis giftbergensis
  Oxalis gigantea
  Oxalis glabra – finger-leaf
  Oxalis goniorhiza
  Oxalis grandis – great yellow-sorrel, large yellow woodsorrel
  Oxalis grayi is now considered O. decaphylla 
  Oxalis griffithii Edgew. & Hook.f.
  Oxalis hedysaroides – fire fern
  Oxalis hirta – hairy sorrel
  Oxalis hygrophila
  Oxalis illinoensis – Illinois wood-sorrel
  Oxalis inaequalis
  Oxalis incarnata L. – pale pink-sorrel
  Oxalis intermedia – West Indian wood-sorrel
  Oxalis laciniata
  Oxalis lasiandra – Mexican shamrock
  Oxalis latifolia Kunth – garden pink-sorrel
  Oxalis livida
  Oxalis luederitzii
  Oxalis luteola Jacq.
  Oxalis macrocarpa
  Oxalis magellanica G.Forst.
  Oxalis magnifica Kunth – snowdrop wood-sorrel
  Oxalis mallobolva
  Oxalis massoniana
  Oxalis megalorrhiza – fleshy yellow-sorrel
  Oxalis meisneri
  Oxalis melanosticta
  Oxalis metcalfei now considered O. alpina 
  Oxalis micrantha – dwarf woodsorrel
  Oxalis montana – mountain woodsorrel, white woodsorrel
  Oxalis monticola now considered O. alpina 
  Oxalis namaquana
  Oxalis natans
  Oxalis nelsonii – Nelson's sorrel
  Oxalis nigrescens A.St.-Hil.
  Oxalis norlindiana
  Oxalis obliquifolia
  Oxalis obtusa
  Oxalis oculifera
  Oxalis oligophylla
  Oxalis oregana – redwood sorrel, Oregon sorrel
  Oxalis oreophila
  Oxalis ortgiesii Regel – fishtail oxalis
  Oxalis palmifrons
  Oxalis pardalis
  Oxalis pennelliana
  Oxalis perennans
  Oxalis peridicaria (= O. lobata)
  Oxalis pes-caprae – Bermuda-buttercup, African wood-sorrel, Bermuda sorrel, buttercup oxalis, Cape sorrel, English weed, soursob, "goat's-foot", "sourgrass", soursop (not to be confused with the fruit of that name)
  Oxalis pilosa see O. albicans 
  Oxalis polyphylla
  Oxalis polyphylla heptaphylla
  Oxalis priceae – tufted yellow-sorrel
  Oxalis puberula
  Oxalis purpurea L. – purple wood-sorrel
  Oxalis radicosa – dwarf woodsorrel
  Oxalis regnellii – false shamrock, purple shamrock, love plant
  Oxalis repens
  Oxalis rosea Feuillée ex Jacq. – annual pink-sorrel
  Oxalis rubens
  Oxalis rubra A.St.-Hil. – red wood-sorrel
  Oxalis rufescens
  Oxalis rugeliana – coamo
  Oxalis schaeferi
  Oxalis spiralis – spiral sorrel, volcanic sorrel, velvet oxalis
  Oxalis squamata
  Oxalis stricta  – common yellow woodsorrel, common yellow oxalis, upright yellow-sorrel, lemon clover, "pickle plant", "sourgrass, "yellow woodsorrel"
  Oxalis suksdorfii – western yellow woodsorrel, western yellow oxalis
  Oxalis tenuifolia
  Oxalis texana
  Oxa
caption: Oxalis spiralis vulcanicola Donn.Sm.
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