Oxalis oregana

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Oxalidaceae

The Oxalidaceae are herbs, shrubs , or rarely trees comprising 7 or 8 genera and about 800 species. The leaves are alternate and pinnately or palmately compound or rarely simple by suppression of leaflets ; stipules are absent. The flowers are bisexual and actinomorphic . The perianth consists of a calyx of 5 distinct sepals and a corolla of 5 distinct or sometimes basally connate petals. The stamens are basally connate and obdiplostemonous , that is, of two series with the outer series opposite the petals; occasionally 5 stamens are reduced to staminodes. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of 5 carpels, 5 distinct styles, and a superior ovary with 5 locules, each containing one or more axile ovules. The fruit is a loculicidal, sometimes explosively dehiscent capsule or berry. -- Gerald Carr

Genus Oxalis

Mostly bulbous herbs with acidic juice. Aerial stem reduced, creeping or rhizomatous . Leaves digitately compound , showing sleep movements. Flowers regular. Stamens monadelphous at the base ; filaments 5 long and 5 short, alternating with one another. Ovary 5 locular with one or more ovules in each locule. Often heterostylous (in some European species) . Fruit capsular . Seeds with an elastic testa.

A large genus with about 800 species. Mostly found in North and South America, South Africa and fairly well represented in Europe and Asia.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,890 meters (0 to 6,201 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 9-12" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 7.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Light Shade.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Oxalis acetosella oregana< /i> (Nutt.) D. Löve • Oxalis oregana var. smallii (R. Knuth) M. E. Peck

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Oxalis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 113 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

O. adenophylla (Chilean Wood Sorrel) · O. albicans (Radishroot Woodsorrel) · O. albicans albicans (Radishroot Woodsorrel) · O. albicans californica (Radishroot Woodsorrel) · O. albicans pilosa (Radishroot Woodsorrel) · O. albicans subsp. californica (California Woodsorrel) · O. albicans subsp. pilosa (Radishroot Woodsorrel) · O. alpina (Alpine Woodsorrel) · O. articulata (Jointed Woodsorrel) · O. articulata rubra (Jointed Woodsorrel) · O. barrelieri (Barrelier's Woodsorrel) · O. bowiei (Bowie Woodsorrel) · O. caerulea (Blue Woodsorrel) · O. corniculata ('ihi) · O. corniculata corniculata (Creeping Woodsorrel) · O. corniculata var. microphylla (Creeping Lady´s-Sorrel) · O. corniculata var. pilosiuscula (Creeping Lady´s-Sorrel) · O. corniculata var. preissiana (Creeping Lady´s-Sorrel) · O. corniculata var. pubescens (Creeping Lady´s-Sorrel) · O. corniculata var. pygmaea (Creeping Lady´s-Sorrel) · O. corniculata var. radicosa (Creeping Lady´s-Sorrel) · O. corniculata var. repens (Creeping Lady´s-Sorrel) · O. corniculata var. serpens (Creeping Lady´s-Sorrel) · O. corniculata var. stricta (Creeping Lady´s-Sorrel) · O. corniculata 'Rubra' (Creeping Wood Sorrel) · O. corymbosa 'Aureo-Reticulata' (Gold Veined Oxalis) · O. crassipes (Pink Wood Sorrel) · O. crassipes 'Alba' (White Oxalis) · O. crassipes 'Rosea' (Pink Wood Sorrel) · O. debilis (Pink Wood Sorrel) · O. debilis corymbosa (Pink Woodsorrel) · O. debilis var. corymbosa (Pink Woodsorrel) · O. decaphylla (Gray's Woodsorrel) · O. depressa (Oxalis) · O. dichondrifolia (Agrito) · O. dillenii filipes (Dillen's Oxalis) · O. drummondii (Drummond Woodsorrel) · O. eggersii (Eggers' Woodsorrel) · O. enneaphylla 'Minutifolia' (Oxalis) · O. enneaphylla 'Patagonia' (Oxalis) · O. frutescens (Shrubby Oxalis) · O. frutescens angustifolia (Shrubby Oxalis) · O. frutescens subsp. angustifolia (Shrubby Woodsorrel) · O. gigantea (Giant Oxalis) · O. grandis (Great Yellow Wood-Sorrel) · O. hedysaroides Kunth 'Rubra' (Fire Fern) · O. hirsutissima (Hairy Oxalis) · O. hirta (Trailing Oxalis) · O. illinoensis (Illinois Woodsorrel) · O. incarnata (Crimson Woodsorrel) · O. intermedia (West Indian Woodsorrel) · O. lasiandra (Palm Tree Oxalis) · O. latifolia (Broad-Leaf Woodsorrel) · O. lobata (Oxalis) · O. luteola 'Maculata' (South African Oxalis) · O. macrocarpa (Sorrel) · O. magellanica (Oxalis) · O. magellanica 'Nelson' (Oxalis) · O. malloloba (Rough-Snouted Gurnard) · O. melanostricta 'Ken Aslet' (Oxalis) · O. montana (Green Snob) · O. nelsonii (Sorrel) · O. oregana (Oregon Wood-Sorrel) · O. ortgiesii (Fishtail Oxalis) · O. peduncularis (Tree Oxalis) · O. pes-caprae (African Woodsorrel) · O. priceae (Price's Yellow Wood Sorrel) · O. priceae colorea (Tufted Yellow Woodsorrel) · O. priceae texana (Tufted Yellow Woodsorrel) · O. priceae subsp. colorea (Tufted Yellow Woodsorrel) · O. priceae subsp. texana (Texas Woodsorrel) · O. purpurea (Purple Woodsorrel) · O. purpurea 'Garnet' (Oxalis) · O. purpurea 'Grand Duchess' (Oxalis) · O. radicosa (Dwarf Woodsorrel) · O. regnelli (Red Leaf) · O. regnellii (False Shamrock) · O. regnellii 'Alba' (False Shamrock) · O. regnellii'Atropurpurea' (Purple Oxalis) · O. regnellii 'Irish Mist' (False Shamrock) · O. regnellii 'Triangularis' (False Shamrock) · O. rosea (Sorrel) · O. rubra (Oxalis Rubra) · O. rugeliana (Coamo) · O. siliquosa 'Copper Glow' (Copper Velvet Shamrock) · O. siliquosa 'Copper Tones' (Copper Velvet Shamrock) · O. siliquosa 'Sunset Velvet' (Copper Velvet Shamrock) · O. spiralis (Spiral Sorrel) · O. spiralis vulcanicola (Volcanic Sorrel) · O. spiralis 'Aureus' (Spiral Sorrel) · O. stricta (Common Yellow Oxalis) · O. stricta var. bushii (Upright Yellow-Sorrel) · O. stricta var. europaea (Upright Yellow-Sorrel) · O. stricta var. viridiflora (Upright Yellow-Sorrel) · O. suksdorfii (Suksdorf Woodsorrel) · O. tetraphylla (Good Luck Plant) · O. tetraphylla 'Iron Cross' (Iron Cross Good Luck Plant) · O. texana texana (Texas Woodsorrel) · O. triangularis Burgundy Wine = 'JR Oxburwi' (Shamrock [burgundy Wine]) · O. triangularis 'Dorothy Chao' (False Shamrock)

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Further Reading

• A flora of California, by Willis Linn Jepson. San Francisco, Calif., Cunningham, Curtis & Welch, 1909- url p. 402.
• American plants. .. [Descriptions, bibliographical notes, synonymy, and other information, comp. from many sources] Charles Russell Orcutt, editor. San Diego, Calif., [1907]-1910. url p. 719.
• An illustrated flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California. Stanford University, Stanford University Press, 1923-[60] url p. 10, p. 8.
• An introduction to California plant life Berkeley: University of California Press, [c1974] url p. 150, p. 59, p. 63, p. 70, p. 86, p. 88.
• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 26.
• Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1971. url p. 310.
• Bulletin. Bureau of Plant Industry. U. S. Department of Agriculture. 1901-13. WashingtonGovt. Print. Off. url p. 63, p. 80.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url p. 219.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 11 1906 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 380, p. 59.
• Elementary flora of the Northwest, Cincinnati [etc.]American Book Company[c1914] url .
• Flora Malesiana. general editor, C.G.G.J. van Steenis. Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff, 1950- url p. 157.
• Flora of the northwest coast, including the area west of the summit of the Cascade Mountains, from the forty-ninth parallel south to the Calapooia Mountains on the south border of Lane County, Oregon. Lancaster, Pa., Press of the New Era Printing Company, 1915. url .
• Flora of the northwest coast: including the area west of the summit of the Cascade Mountains, from the forty-ninth parallel south to the Calapooia Mountains on the south border of Lane County, Oregon / by Charles V. Piper and R. Kent Beattie. Lancaster, Pa.: Press of the New era printing company, 1915. url p. 230.
• Flora of the state of Washington / by Charles V. Piper. Washington: G.P.O., 1906 url p. 380, p. 59.
• Flora of the state of Washington. By Charles V. Piper. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1906. url p. 380.
• Leaflets of western botany. San Fransisco:[J. T. Howell], 1932-1966. url , , , , p. 49, p. 50.
• Mount Rainier: a record of exploration / edited by Edmond S. Meany. New York: Macmillan, 1916. url p. 271.
• Muhlenbergia. Chico, Calif. [etc] url p. 147, p. 95.
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. url p. 172.
• Pamphlets on forestry in California. [1900?- url p. 128.
• Plant indicators: the relation of plant communities to process and practice. WashingtonCarnegie Institution of Washington1920 url p. 219.
• Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[6]. .. Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer [etc.]1855-60. url p. 68.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 112, p. 120, p. 13, p. 150, p. 23, p. 77.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 240.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url , p. 188.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 30 1895 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts &amp; Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 476.
• The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 1474, p. 1475, p. 1476.
• Western flower guide, wild flowers of the Rockies and west to the Pacific, Garden City, Doubleday, Page & company, 1917. url p. 103, p. 281.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 27, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 19, 2007:

• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Oregon State University, Vascular Plant Collection
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• University of Washington Burke Museum, Vascular Plant Collection - University of Washington Herbarium
• Utah State University, USU-UTC Specimen Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2652458
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-29091
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13743736
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:375214-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 29091
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 375214-1
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDOXA010M0
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: OXORS
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 51375

Footnotes

1. "Oxalis". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 281.000 meters (921.916 feet), Standard Deviation = 398.670 based on 240 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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