Oxalis articulata

Family:OXALIDACEAE
Species:Oxalis articulata Savigny
Common Name:Windowbox Wood Sorrel; Red Oxalis
Habitat:Persistant and spreading from cultivation about old home sites, fields and roadsides.
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Windowbox Wood Sorrel is an introduced perennial herb in the Wood-Sorrel family (Oxalidaceae). It can be found throughout most of Alabama. Windowbox Wood Sorrel occurs in lawns, on vacant lots, in urban woodlands, and on roadsides. It is an acaulous perennial forming large clumps from rhizomes. The rhizomes are thick, woody, and irregularly segmented. Stolons and bulbs are absent. Leaves are long petiolate, with three heart-shaped leaflets. The leaves are pubescent and ciliate along the margins. Distinct dots of oxalate deposits are visible, especially towards the margins of the leaflets. Flowers are produced in cymes. Each cyme has 3-12 pink, rose, or white flowers. The flowers have 5 green sepals, 5 petals, and 10 stamens. Five on the stamens are long and 5 are short. The sepals have two orange bumps near their apex. The fruit is a capsule. Windowbox Wood Sorrel is a common old-fashioned plant often found around older homes. It can be used as an indoor potted plant or in a low border. Flowers and leaves fold closed at night and on rainy days. It prefers a moist, organic rich soil in full to partial sun. Large clumps can be dug and separated most any time of the year. Plants may go dormant and die down during periods of drought.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

** Not applicable or data not available.

Classification

FamilyOXALIDACEAE - Wood-Sorrel family
Genus Oxalis
Species Oxalis articulata Savigny - Windowbox Wood Sorrel; Red Oxalis

Citation

Citation Oxalis articulata Savigny, Encycl. 4(2): 686–687. 1797 [1798].
Basionym: **
Type: URUGUAY: Montevideo, May 1767, Commerson s.n. (holotype: P; isotype: P).

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Acetosella articulata Acetosella articulata (Savigny) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 91. 1891.Oxalis articulata Savigny 1798. 
Acetosella rubra Acetosella rubra (A. Saint-Hilaire) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 93. 1891.Oxalis rubra A. Saint-Hilaire 1825. 
Oxalis articulata ssp. rubra Oxalis articulata Savigny, subsp. rubra (A. Saint-Hilaire) Lourteig, Phytologia 50: 137. 1982.Oxalis rubra A. Saint-Hilaire 1825. 
Oxalis rubra Oxalis rubra A. Saint-Hilaire, Fl. Bras. Merid. 1: 124. 1825. BRAZIL: São Paulo: Near the village Freguesia Nova, Mar 1816-1821, Saint-Hilaire C²-1587 (holotype: P; isotype: P).

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Dallas, Elmore, Escambia, Etowah, Henry, Houston, Jefferson, Lee, Lowndes, Marengo, Mobile, Montgomery, Pike, Randolph, St. Clair, Sumter, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Tuscaloosa, Winston

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AMAL, AUA, JSU, SAMF, TROY, UNA, UWAL, UWFP

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1955 - 1997

Barcode / Accession No.
County
Coll. Date
Collector &
Collection No.
Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used
Image
TROY000047403 Autauga 21 Mar 2017 Parker, Matthew R.
495
TROY
Oxalis articulata Savigny
UWAL0046139 Autauga 21 Mar 2017 Parker, Matthew R.
495
UWAL
Oxalis articulata Savigny
UWAL0046178 Autauga 02 Mar 2018 Parker, Matthew R.
1529
UWAL
Oxalis articulata Savigny
TROY000048578 Autauga 02 Mar 2018 Parker, Matthew R.
1529
TROY
Oxalis articulata Savigny
UWFP000025746acc Baldwin 30 Nov 2015 James R. Burkhalter
25681
UWFP
Oxalis rubra A. St. -Hil.
UWAL0036238 Barbour 08 Sep 2013 Keener, Brian R.
8169
UWAL
Oxalis articulata Savigny in Lamarck
AUA_ACC_35985 Bibb 17 Mar 1979 BECKETT, SCOTT W.
097
AUA
OXALIS RUBRA ST.-HIL.
UNA00053689 Blount 14 Mar 1997 Keener, Brian R.
11
UNA
Oxalis articulata Savigny subsp. rubra (St.-Hil.) Lourteig
AUA_ACC_48972 Bullock 9 May 1988 DIAMOND, JR., ALVIN R.
4745
AUA
OXALIS RUBRA ST.-HIL.
UWAL0011084 Bullock 22 Feb 2012 Dykes, Bailee
309
UWAL
Oxalis articulata Savigny
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