Photo of Plantae: species: Oxalis debilis

Oxalis debilis

© Harry Rose

Introduced, yearlong green, perennial herb with reduced stems (appearing absent). Bulbs are rounded, light brown and vertically ridged; bulbils are sessile and formed from old bulbs. Leaves are trifoliolate, with obcordate leaflets, 1–4 cm long and wide; petioles are hairless or nearly so and 5–20 cm long; stipules taper into the petiole. Flowerheads are 8–15-flowered in an umbel-like cyime held well above the leaves. Flowers have 5 sepals and 5 pink, 12–18 mm long, fused petals. Fruit are not formed in Australia. Flowering occurs throughout the year. A native of South America, it is planted as an ornamental, but has escaped to be a widespread environmental weed.

Photo taken on 22 Jul 2006