Yellow Wood Sorrel
It tends to grow in woodlands meadows and in disturbed areas as both a perennial.
Yellow wood sorrel. Yellow wood sorrel is a perennial plant that can be found in sunny and partially shaded areas such as trailsides along sidewalks in parks yards gardens and fields. See more pictures of Oxalis here. Wood sorrel or oxalis is a medium-sized wild edible weed that thrives in most areas across Canada and the US.
The sour taste promotes bile production which is necessary for healthy functioning digestion. The family is mostly found in temperate regions. Yellow Woodsorrel looks like a clover with heart-shaped leaves that fold up during the night.
This delicate seeming plant forms colonies which arise from slender but tough underground stems rhizomes. Yellow wood sorrel has a slightly sour-lemony taste that promotes saliva production which can be good for the gums and good for your digestive tract. The plant has a shallow taproot and hairy stems that are 4 to 10 inches tall.
Yellow wood sorrel is a nuisance for most gardeners but it also has uses. Species in this family are small trees to small herbs. Oxalis stricta called the common yellow woodsorrel or simply yellow woodsorrel common yellow oxalis upright yellow-sorrel lemon clover or more ambiguously and informally sourgrass or pickle plant is a herbaceous plant native to North America parts of Eurasia and has a rare introduction in Britain.
All parts of yellow wood sorrel are edible and they have a bright tangy flavor. Oxalis corniculata also known as creeping wood sorrel procumbent yellow-sorrel or sleeping beauty is a species of perennial flowering low-growing herbaceous plant in genus Oxalis and Oxalidaceae family. Yellow sorrel Oxalis corniculata is a low creeping weed that will happily grow anywhere its as happy in the bone-dry cracks in paving as it is in the damp garden and around the tops of containersAlthough small its tricky to pull out and the roots usually stay where they are and it will regrow from them.
Other plants in the family include purple shamrocks Oxalis triangularis a common houseplant and violet wood sorrel Oxalis violacea. Its range extends from Quebec south to Florida in the east and from British Columbia to Arizona in the west. Leaves are clover-like with 3 heart-shaped.