Garden pink-sorrel
Oxalis latifolia Kunth
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 20 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Oxalidaceae
Also called Mexican Oxalis, Broad-leaved Sorrel, Fishtail Sorrel, Red Sorrel, Fishtail oxalis
Formerly Ionoxalis latifolia, Sassia latifolia
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 20 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -15 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: light, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Acederilla, agritos
- root
- cáinixi, scocotawan, taltzo xocoyul
- myn
- suts'keyem
- Portuguese
- Azeda
- Czech
- šťavel širolistý
- French
- Oxalis à larges feuilles
- Finnish
- eväkäenkaali
- German
- Breitblättriger Sauerklee
- Chinese
- 闊葉酢漿草, 宽叶酢浆草, 蛾酢浆草
- Chinese (China)
- 阔叶酢浆草
- Russian
- Кислица широколистная
- Catalan
- vinagrera de fulla ampla
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Oxalis latifolia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.