Yellow Woodsorrel

(Oxalis stricta)

Characteristics

Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Prostrate to erect annual or perennial

Root anatomy: Fibrous from taproot or rhizomes

Leaf anatomy: Alternate, compound w/3 heart-shaped leaflets, green to purple-green, may or may not be glabrous

Reproduction: flowers in unequally branched umbel, yellow, 5 petals

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