Bermuda buttercup
Oxalis pes-caprae L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 20 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Oxalidaceae
Also called Cape Woodsorrel, Bermuda-buttercup, English-weed, Soursob, Sourgrass
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Namibia to Cape Prov.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 20 cmRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Nickender Sauerklee
- French
- Oxalis des Bermudes
- Spanish
- Choquita amarilla, Flor de Sueño, Matapán
- Catalan
- agret, Vinagrella
- Portuguese
- Azeda
- Japanese
- オオキバナカタバミ
- Czech
- šťavel kozí noha
- Hebrew
- חמציץ נטוי
- Chinese (China)
- 黄花酢浆草, 秋植酢浆草
- Russian
- Кислица козья
- Arabic
- أقصليس ماعزي, قريصة
- Chinese
- 雀斑酢漿草, 秋植酢浆草, 黄花酢浆草
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
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Oxalis pes-caprae (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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