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|accepted_name=Oxalis laxa
|accepted_authority=Hooker & Arnott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Beechey Voy.,
|place=13. 1830
|year=1830
}}
|common_names=Dwarf wood-sorrel
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxalis corniculata var. sericea
|authority=R. Knuth
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. micrantha
|authority=Bertero ex Savi
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. radicosa
|authority=A. Richard
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. simulans
|authority=Baker
}}
|hierarchy=Oxalidaceae;Oxalis;Oxalis laxa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Oxalidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Oxalis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Oxalis laxa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 136, 146
|treatment_page=page 145
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>annual, caulescent, sometimes densely cespitose, rhizomes and stolons absent, bulbs absent. <b>Aerial</b> stems 1–5 from base, erect, 0.5–7 cm, usually herbaceous, sometimes becoming ± woody proximally, hirtellous to villous-hirtellous. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; stipules rudimentary; petiole 1.5–6 cm; leaflets 3, green, obcordate, 5–12 mm, lobed 1/5 length, lobes apically convex, surfaces glabrous, oxalate deposits absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, 6–14-flowered; peduncles 3–15 cm. <b>Flowers</b> heterostylous; sepal apices without tubercles; petals yellow, 6–12 mm. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid to spheric, 3–5 mm, puberulent.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Disturbed sites, riparian woodlands, riverbanks, gravelly beaches, rock crevices, foothill woodlands.
|elevation=10–800 m.
|distribution=Calif.;South America (Chile).
|discussion=<p><i>Oxalis laxa</i> is widespread in California in the eastern part of the Central Valley and along the central coast.</p>
|tables=
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name=Oxalis laxa
|author=
|authority=Hooker & Arnott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Oxalis corniculata var. sericea;O. micrantha;O. radicosa;O. simulans
|basionyms=
|family=Oxalidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Disturbed sites, riparian woodlands, riverbanks, gravelly beaches, rock crevices, foothill woodlands.
|elevation=10–800 m.
|distribution=Calif.;South America (Chile).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Beechey Voy.,
|publication year=1830
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_773.xml
|genus=Oxalis
|species=Oxalis laxa
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