| Scientific Name: | Oxalis corniculata |
| Common Name: | creeping oxalis |
| Family Name: | Oxalidaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
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| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Trifoliate (ternate), Obovate, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Yellow, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Common weed in bed edges or sidewalk cracks; leaves trifolate, leaflets heart-shaped, most 8-12mm long x 14-17mm wide, mid-green with purple tinged magins or entirely purple; flowers yellow with five petals; fruit pod like, most 1-2.5cm long, exploding when ripe to release many seeds. | |