Creeping Yellow Woodsorrel, Creeping Woodsorrel

Oxalis corniculata L.

Oxalidaceae (Woodsorrel Family)

seedling▲

▲▼ mature plants, showing stolons

▲ flowering plants

·         creeping woodsorrel:

o   similar to  yellow woodsorrel (gray-green woodsorrel)

o   may be a perennial in warm areas

o   has more reddish leaves

o   has slightly smaller flowers than yellow woodsorrel

o   roots at nodes & produces stolons, not rhizomes

o   common as a greenhouse pest