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|accepted_name=Oxalis illinoensis
|accepted_authority=Schwegman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=50: 467. 1982
|year=1982
}}
|common_names=Illinois wood-sorrel
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Oxalidaceae;Oxalis;Oxalis illinoensis
|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 illinoensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 138, 141
|treatment_page=page 145
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, caulescent, rhizomes present, with horizontal, white, fusiform tubers or tuberlike thickenings, stolons absent, bulbs absent. <b>Aerial</b> stems 1(–3) from base, erect, 15–40 cm, herbaceous, glabrate to sparsely to densely villous, hairs ± straight, spreading, septate and nonseptate. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; stipules rudimentary; petiole 4–7.5 cm, hairs septate and nonseptate; leaflets 3, green, obcordate, (12–)20–30(–35) mm, lobed 1/5 length, lobes apically truncate, margins green, ciliate, surfaces glabrous, oxalate deposits absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> regular or irregular cymes, 1–3(–6)-flowered; peduncles 3–10 cm. <b>Flowers</b> tristylous, mostly at level of leaves; sepal apices without tubercles; petals yellow, with prominent red lines proximally, 12–18 mm. <b>Capsules</b> oblong-ovoid, 7–10 mm, sparsely puberulent to villous. <b>Seeds</b> brown, transverse ridges brown.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Sep.
|habitat=Slopes, bluffs, ravines, flood plains, mesic forests, sometimes forming dominant ground cover, commonly on limestone, shale, or calcareous loess.
|elevation=200–500 m.
|distribution=Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p>Differences between Oxalis illinoensis and O. grandis are subtle, but they appear to be correlated with geography. Oxalis illinoensis occupies the western part of the range of O. grandis in the wide sense. The tuberous portions of the rhizomes of O. illinoensis are diagnostic, but they are commonly broken off during collection. M. E. Medley (1993) observed that the two taxa intergrade, and a hybrid population has been identified in Indiana (A. L. Heikens 2003).</p><!--
--><p>Oxalis illinoensis is listed as threatened in Illinois and rare in Indiana.</p>
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name=Oxalis illinoensis
|author=
|authority=Schwegman
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Oxalidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Sep.
|habitat=Slopes, bluffs, ravines, flood plains, mesic forests, sometimes forming dominant ground cover, commonly on limestone, shale, or calcareous loess.
|elevation=200–500 m.
|distribution=Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Tenn.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1982
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Oxalis
|species=Oxalis illinoensis
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