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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Oxalis albicans
|accepted_authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Nov. Gen. Sp.
|place=5(fol.): 189; 5(qto.): 244. 1822
|year=1822
}}
|common_names=Western yellow wood-sorrel
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxalis californica var. subglabra
|authority=Wiegand
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. corniculata subsp. albicans
|authority=(Kunth) Lourteig
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. corniculata var. wrightii
|authority=(A. Gray) B. L. Turner
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. pilosa var. wrightii
|authority=(A. Gray) Wiegand
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=O. wrightii
|authority=A. Gray
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Xanthoxalis albicans
|authority=(Kunth) Small
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=X. wrightii
|authority=(A. Gray) Abrams
}}
|hierarchy=Oxalidaceae;Oxalis;Oxalis albicans
|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 albicans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 137, 143
|treatment_page=page 142
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, caulescent, rhizomes and stolons absent, bulbs absent. <b>Aerial</b> stems usually 2–8 from base, usually decumbent to prostrate, less commonly ascending, sporadically rooting at nodes, 10–40 cm, becoming woody proximally, puberulent to hirtellous-puberulent, hairs usually antrorsely curved or crisped, sometimes ± straight, nonseptate, longer hairs 0.2–0.3(–0.8) mm. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; stipules rudimentary or oblong, margins narrowly flanged, apical auricles absent; petiole (1–)3–7(–10) cm, hairs nonseptate; leaflets 3, glaucous and gray-green to yellowish green, obcordate, 5–10(–15) mm, lobed 1/5–1/3 length, surfaces glabrous to loosely strigose, oxalate deposits absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> umbelliform cymes, 1–2(–3)-flowered; peduncles 1.5–5 cm. <b>Flowers</b> semihomostylous, within level of leaves; sepal apices without tubercles, surfaces strigose to hirsute-strigose; petals yellow, rarely with red lines proximally, 6–10(–12) mm. <b>Capsules</b> angular-cylindric, abruptly tapering to apex, 14–20 mm, strigose-hirsute. <b>Seeds</b> brown to blackish brown, transverse ridges rarely with whitish lines or spots.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Aug(–Oct).
|habitat=Desert scrub, grasslands, mesquite-acacia, pinyon-juniper, oak-pine-juniper, oak-buckthorn, riparian woodlands (sycamore-hackberry-walnut-ash-willow), stream banks, meadows, washes, hillsides, ravines, canyons, disturbed sites.
|elevation=(600–)700–1900(–2100) m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala).
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Oxalis albicans
|author=
|authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Oxalis californica var. subglabra;O. corniculata subsp. albicans;O. corniculata var. wrightii;O. pilosa var. wrightii;O. wrightii;Xanthoxalis albicans;X. wrightii
|basionyms=
|family=Oxalidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Aug(–Oct).
|habitat=Desert scrub, grasslands, mesquite-acacia, pinyon-juniper, oak-pine-juniper, oak-buckthorn, riparian woodlands (sycamore-hackberry-walnut-ash-willow), stream banks, meadows, washes, hillsides, ravines, canyons, disturbed sites.
|elevation=(600–)700–1900(–2100) m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala).
|reference=None
|publication title=Nov. Gen. Sp.
|publication year=1822
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_1041.xml
|genus=Oxalis
|species=Oxalis albicans
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