Oxalis floridaSalisb.

WFO wfo-0000389980 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Oxalis florida, photographed by Alison Northup
fig. a Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-05-27 / obs. 76542138
Oxalis florida, photographed by John Kees
fig. b John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 129215031
Oxalis florida, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. c Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123928742
Oxalis florida, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. d Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73908303
Oxalis florida, photographed by John Kees
fig. e John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 65933309
Oxalis florida, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. f Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39429131
Oxalis florida, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. g Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 7192095
Oxalis florida, photographed by John Kees
fig. h John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 129215044

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Oxalis florida is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia AlabamaArkansasConnecticutFloridaGeorgiaIndianaLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMississippiMissouriNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaTexasVermontVirginiaWest Virginia District of Columbia
Native distribution of Oxalis florida, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Connecticut CNT
District of Columbia WDC
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Indiana INI
Louisiana LOU
Maine MAI
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Pennsylvania PEN
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX
Vermont VER
Virginia VRG
West Virginia WVA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Oxalis brittoniae Small
  • Oxalis dillenii subsp. filipes (Small) G.Eiten
  • Oxalis dillenii subsp. recurva (Elliott) C.F.Reed
  • Oxalis dillenii var. florida (Salisb.) DC.
  • Oxalis filipes Small
  • Oxalis florida var. filipes (Small) H.E.Ahles
  • Oxalis florida var. florida
  • Oxalis florida var. recurva (Elliott) H.E.Ahles
  • Oxalis florida var. strigosifolia Wiegand
  • Oxalis recurva Elliott
  • Oxalis rupestris Raf.
  • Xanthoxalis brittoniae (Small) Small
  • Xanthoxalis filipes (Small) Small
  • Xanthoxalis florida (Salisb.) Moldenke
  • Xanthoxalis recurva (Elliott) Small

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.