Oxalis latifoliaKunth

broadleaf woodsorrel

WFO wfo-0000387357 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Oxalis latifolia, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. a Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203522030
Oxalis latifolia, photographed by Dave Richardson
fig. b Dave Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203542451
Oxalis latifolia, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. c Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195557610
Oxalis latifolia, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. d Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193547718
Oxalis latifolia, photographed by Tim Kirsten
fig. e Tim Kirsten, CC0 1.0 / obs. 187882072
Oxalis latifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 182983168
Oxalis latifolia, photographed by Kahio Tiberio Mazon
fig. g Kahio Tiberio Mazon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 180950568
Oxalis latifolia, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. h Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174997852

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
1403272
Filed as
Oxalis latifolia subsp. latifolia
Det. by
R. Berazaín Iturralde 2016-01-01
Collected
A. H. Liogier 1971-06-08
Origin
DO
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Oxalis latifolia is native: Arizona, California, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Texas, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Windward Is. ArizonaCaliforniaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestNew MexicoTexasArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela BahamasLeeward Is.Turks-Caicos Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Oxalis latifolia, 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
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bahamas BAH
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Arizona ARI NORTHERN AMERICA
California CAL
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
New Mexico NWM
Texas TEX

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.

Flowering 779 in flower of 1,081 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Oxalis latifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 779 of 1,081 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,960 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.8 °C 7.5 °C 15.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.8 °C 25.5 °C 32.0 °C
Annual rainfall 481 mm 1,024 mm 2,203 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 14 mm 126 mm 286 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,960 research-grade observations of Oxalis latifolia that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 44 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.

  • Acetosella galeottii (Turcz.) Kuntze
  • Acetosella lilacina (Klotzsch) Kuntze
  • Acetosella schraderiana (Kunth) Kuntze
  • Acetosella violacea subsp. latifolia (Kunth) Kuntze
  • Acetosella violacea var. albida Kuntze
  • Ionoxalis angulata Small
  • Ionoxalis attenuata Small
  • Ionoxalis bipartita Rose
  • Ionoxalis buchtienii Rusby
  • Ionoxalis calcaria Small
  • Ionoxalis galeottii (Turcz.) Rose
  • Ionoxalis intermedia Small
  • Ionoxalis latifolia (Kunth) Rose
  • Ionoxalis stipitata Rose
  • Ionoxalis tenuiloba Rose
  • Ionoxalis vallicola Rose ex Small
  • Ionoxalis vespertilionis (Zucc.) Rose
  • Oxalis angulata (Small) R.Knuth
  • Oxalis atroglandulosa R.Knuth
  • Oxalis binervis Regel
  • Oxalis buchtienii (Rusby) R.Knuth
  • Oxalis calcaria (Small) R.Knuth
  • Oxalis chiriquensis Woodson
  • Oxalis cobanensis R.Knuth

and 20 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.