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|accepted_name=Oxalis debilis
|accepted_authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Nov. Gen. Sp.
|place=5(fol.): 183; 5(qto.): 236. 1822
|year=1822
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|common_names=World-wide wood-sorrel
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ionoxalis martiana
|authority=(Zuccarini) Small
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|name=Oxalis corymbosa
|authority=de Candolle
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|name=O. debilis subsp. corymbosa
|authority=(de Candolle) O. Bolòs & Vigo
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|name=O. debilis var. corymbosa
|authority=(de Candolle) Lourteig
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|name=O. martiana
|authority=Zuccarini
}}
|hierarchy=Oxalidaceae;Oxalis;Oxalis debilis
|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 debilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 135
|treatment_page=page 152
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, acaulous, rhizomes and stolons absent, bulblets clustered; bulb scales 3-nerved. <b>Leaves</b> basal; petiole 10–25 cm; leaflets 3, green to yellowish green, rounded-obcordate, 17–40(–50) mm, lobed 1/6–1/5 length, lobes apically convex, adaxial surface hirsute, adaxial surface glabrous, oxalate deposits in dots at least around distal margins, often evenly over surface. <b>Inflorescences</b> irregular cymes, (3–)8–14(–28)-flowered; scapes 15–28 cm, moderately villous to glabrate. <b>Flowers</b> mostly homostylous, infrequently tristylous; sepal apices with 2 orange tubercles; petals violet to lavender or rose purple, 10–16(–20) mm. <b>Capsules</b> not observed. <b>2n</b> = 14, 28, rarely 35.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Dec–May, rarely again in summer.
|habitat=Fencerows, yards, flower beds, roadsides, disturbed areas, hammock margins, sandy live oak woods, mesic woods, stream and river terraces.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Calif.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Oreg.;S.C.;Tex.;Wash.;South America;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;Europe;se Asia (Malesia);Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p><i>Oxalis debilis</i> appears to be spreading rapidly in the United States. The species produces numerous bulblets in a basal cluster and apparently also can spread laterally by production of bulblets at the tips of filiform roots or rhizomes; it can form large, dense colonies. A. Lourteig (1980) noted that plants of this species occasionally fruit but consistently reproduce through abundant bulblets. They apparently are seed-sterile in North America.</p><!--
--><p><i>Oxalis</i> corymbosa and <i>O. debilis</i> were differentiated by A. Lourteig (2000) primarily by the distribution of oxalate deposits in the leaf lamina. In <i>O. debilis</i>, the dotlike deposits are crowded along the margins and absent to distinctly less abundant elsewhere. In <i>O. corymbosa</i>, the deposits are evenly distributed over the whole lamina. In their native range in South America, the two expressions are broadly sympatric and intermediates are common, as they are in the flora area. Intermediates have the oxalate dots along the margins as well as over the whole surface or sometimes mostly on the outer third of the blades, near the margins. There is no justification for formal recognition of two entities.</p>
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name=Oxalis debilis
|author=
|authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Ionoxalis martiana;Oxalis corymbosa;O. debilis subsp. corymbosa;O. debilis var. corymbosa;O. martiana
|basionyms=
|family=Oxalidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Dec–May, rarely again in summer.
|habitat=Fencerows, yards, flower beds, roadsides, disturbed areas, hammock margins, sandy live oak woods, mesic woods, stream and river terraces.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Calif.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Oreg.;S.C.;Tex.;Wash.;South America;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;Central America;Europe;se Asia (Malesia);Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Nov. Gen. Sp.
|publication year=1822
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Oxalis
|species=Oxalis debilis
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