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Oxalis tenuifolia (field sorrel; red sorrel; red (or sheep) sorrel; common sheep sorrel; sheep sorrel)

Synonyms: Acetosella tenuifolia (heterotypic); Oxalis limbata; Oxalis loddigesiana; Oxalis patula (heterotypic); Oxalis thunbergiana

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Oxalis tenuifolia

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Bee Flower Color [2]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [2]  Red
Height [3]  12 inches (.3 m)
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Structure [5]  Herb
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Mostly Acid
Soil Fertility [4]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [4]  Moist

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe polygoni (Beet Powdery Mildew)[6]
Pegomya bicolor[6]
Ramularia rubella[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
3PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
5Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
6Ecology of Commanster
7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
8New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
9Food habits of the copper pheasant Syrmaticus soemmerringii in winter season, Noritomo KAWAJI and Jun YOKOYAMA, (Bulletin of FFPRI) Vol.8 No.2 (No.411) 127 - 132 June 2009
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0