GERANIUM FAMILY 



(Geraniacece) 



Herbs with lobed or compound leaves, and perfect regular 

 flowers, sepals and petals usually 5 each; stamens as many or 

 twice as many. Seed vessels 5, at first united about a persis- 

 tent central column, finally splitting upward from below and 

 slinging out the seeds. 



WOOD SORREL (Oxalis oregana, Nutt.). Flowers about 

 an inch long, white or rose, frequently dark-veined, borne 

 singly on rather short 2-bracted scapes; leaves cloverlike, of 3 

 leaflets heart-shaped at the outer edge, 1 to 2 inches broad, 

 usually rusty underneath, rising from slender creeping root- 

 stocks. 



The Wood Sorrel is common in the redwood forests of the 

 Pacific Coast from the Monterey Bay region northward to 

 Washington, often making solid mats of mingled leaf and 

 flower over the ground. The leaves, if bitten, are pleasantly 

 acid, like those of the eastern wood sorrel. 



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