wood sorrel
Noun
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Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis (synset 112723708)
is a type of: herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pestssubtypes:
- common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, oxalis acetosella, shamrock - Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
- bermuda buttercup, english-weed, oxalis cernua, oxalis pes-caprae - South African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers
- creeping oxalis, creeping wood sorrel, oxalis corniculata - creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan
- goat's foot, goatsfoot, oxalis caprina - short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers
- oxalis violacea, violet wood sorrel - perennial herb of eastern North America with palmately compound leaves and usually rose-purple flowers
- oca, oka, oxalis crenata, oxalis tuberosa - South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
belongs to: genus oxalis - type genus of the Oxalidaceae; large genus of plants having leaves that resemble clover and variously colored flowers usually clustered in umbels
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