Oxalis grandis

Oxalis grandis, the great yellow woodsorrel, is an annual plant and herb in the woodsorrel family. It is native to the eastern United States from Georgia north to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, west as far as Louisiana.[1][3] It blooms from May to June with yellow flowers.[4]

Oxalis grandis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Oxalidaceae
Genus: Oxalis
Species:
O. grandis
Binomial name
Oxalis grandis
Synonyms[2]
  • Oxalis recurva Trel. 1888, illegitimate homonym not Elliott 1821
  • Xanthoxalis grandis (Small) Small

References
  1. "Oxalis grandis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
  2. Tropicos, Oxalis grandis Small
  3. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. Justice, William S.; Bell, C. Ritchie; Lindsey, Anne H. (2005). Wild Flowers of North Carolina (2. printing. ed.). Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press. p. 134. ISBN 0807855979.


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