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habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of leaf with three heart-shaped leaflets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
flower cluster (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
bulbs with smaller bulbils (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
Scientific Name
Oxalis debilis Kunth var. corymbosa
Synonyms
Oxalis corymbosa DC.Oxalis martiana Zucc.
Family
Oxalidaceae
Common Names
large flowered pink sorrel, large-flowered pink-sorrel, lilac oxalis, pink shamrock, pink wood sorrel, pink wood-sorrel, pink woodsorrel, violet wood-sorrel, violet woodsorrel
Origin
Native to South America (i.e. Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina).
Naturalised Distribution
Widely naturalised in southern and eastern Australia (i.e. in eastern Queensland , in the coastal districts of eastern New South Wales , in southern Victoria, in Tasmania and in the coastal districts of south-western Western Australia). Also naturalised in the southern parts of the Northern Territory, and on Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Sparingly naturalised in the ACT and south-eastern South Australia.
Widely naturalised overseas in south-eastern USA, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Asia and several Pacific islands (i.e. the Galápagos Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Western Samoa and Hawaii).
Notes
Pink shamrock (Oxalis debilis var. corymbosa ) is regarded as a minor environmental weed in Queensland, and as a "sleeper weed" in other parts of Australia.
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