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Yellow Wood-Sorrel (Oxalis stricta)

Image ID: 2018/ar141

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Other common names: Sour Grass
Native
Family: Oxalidaceae (Wood Sorrel)
Height: 0.5 to 1.5 ft.
Blooms: May to October
Leaf Type: divided
Bloom Size:  0.5 in. (typical)
Flower Description: Individual flowers, Regular blooms, 5 parts
Location: Allegheny River Trail
Date:  7/17/2018
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Yellow Wood-Sorrel may be easily confused with:
We started out as wildflowers from the bicycle trails of western Pennsylvania, but we've grown!
Meyer, Joseph E. (1918). The Herbalist and Herb Doctor. Hammond, Ind.: Indiana Herb Gardens. 400 pp.

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