Family | OXALIDACEAE |
Genus species | Oxalis discolor Klotzsch |
Bibliography | Allg. Gartenzeitung 8: 257 (1840) |
Native Range | c. & s. Mexico |
Primary Biome | Subtropical |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Description | leaves numerous, ternate, leaflets broadly obcordate, emarginate, adaxially glabrous, abaxially densely adpressed hirsute, flowers 1-3, pedicelate, sepals lanceolate, acute |
Size | 10-16cm |
Color | red-violet |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuberous perennial |
Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months 18-21°C division of resting tubers |
Synonyms | Acetosella discolor (Klotzsch) Kuntze Ionoxalis discolor (Klotzsch) Small Ionoxalis schiedeana (Zucc.) Rose Oxalis schiedeana Zucc. |
Territory | 7 Northern America 79 Mexico (MXC Mexico Central, MXS Mexico Southwest, MXT Mexico Southeast) |