OXALIDACEAE (WOOD SORREL FAMILT) 255 



Seed-time: August to October. 



Range: Indiana to Minnesota and Nebraska, southward to the 



Gulf of Mexico. 

 Habitat: Fields and meadows, banks of streams, waste places. 



A small, very slender, low-climbing plant, with stems fifteen to 

 thirty inches long, clothed with fine, downward-turning hairs. 

 Leaflets lance-shaped or oblong to linear, without lobes, obtuse at 

 apex and rounded at base, entire, little more than an inch long and 

 less than a half-inch wide. Heads two- to six-flowered, in capitate 

 clusters, on peduncles much longer than the leaves ; corollas pale 

 purple and only about a quarter-inch long. Pods very slender, a 

 little more than an inch in length, flat, and very hairy. Beans 

 purple, very small and flat, at first mealy but later smooth and 

 shining. 



Means of control the same as for the Trailing Wild Bean. 



YELLOW WOOD SORREL 



Oxalis stricla, L. 

 (Xanthdxalis stricta, Small) 



Other English names: Upright Wood Sorrel, Sheep Sorrel, Sheep 

 Poison, Sour-grass. 



Native. Annual or perennial. Propagates by seeds and by woody 

 rootstocks. 



Time of bloom: April to September. 



Seed-time: Late May to October. 



Range: Nova Scotia to South Da- 

 kota, southward to Florida and 

 Texas. 



Habitat : In woods, cultivated ground, 

 roadsides, waste places, even along 

 the curbstones of city streets. 



Stems tufted on woody rootstocks, 

 or annual seedlings single, upright or 

 sometimes decumbent, branching at 

 the base, pale green, slender, covered 

 with fine, appressed hairs. Leaves 

 alternate, palmately three-parted, the 

 leaflets about a half-inch long, bright FlQ 180 . _ Ye ilow Wood Sorrel 

 green, smooth, deeply notched at the (Oxalis stricta). x i 



