Yellow Woodsorrel

(Oxalis stricta)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habit: Prostrate to erect annual or perennial herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot and rhizomes

Leaf anatomy: Alternately arranged, compound, trifoliate, heart-shaped leaflets, green to purplish green

Reproduction: Showy yellow flowers, 5-petal, clustered in unequally branched umbel; capsule fruit

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}