Yellow Sheep-sorrel

Yellow Sheep-sorrel Care

Oxalis Stricta

What is the plant

Yellow wood sorrel is an herbaceous annual or perennial with taproots when young, developing rhizomes with age. Flowers in unevenly branched panicles on long stems, with 5 yellow, rounded petals. Blooms May–October. Leaves alternate, trifoliate (like clover), the leaflets heart-shaped, light to dark green or copper to purple, often recurved, sometimes with grayish hairs. At the end of each day, the leaflets droop or fold downward, parallel to the stem; they spread again the next morning. Fruit an upright, pointed capsule to about 1 inch long.

It's considered invasive in Kentucky (US) and Japan.

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Humidity

Normal

Lighting

Part Sun

Temperature

-3°C - 18°C

Hardiness zone

8 - 11

Difficulty

Medium

Hibernation

Cold Period

Toxicity

Poisonous

How to Care for the Plant

Water
It needs regular moisture, but the soil itself must be well drained.
Pruning
Make sure you cut off the seed heads before the seeds are mature if you don't want it to spread everywhere.
Fertilizer
Do not mix in fertilizer or composted manure - it actually does better in nutrient poor soils.

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Sunlight
Try find a place where it gets morning and evening sun in the summer, but is shaded during the heat of the day.
Soil
Not hard to grow if you have loose, loamy acidic soils.
Popularity
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