Fourleaf pink-sorrel
Oxalis tetraphylla Cav.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 23 cm
- wide
- 13 cm
Oxalidaceae
Also called Lucky clover, Four-Leaved Pink Sorrel, Four-leaved Pink-sorrel, Four-leaved Sorrel
Formerly Acetosella tetraphylla, Ionoxalis tetraphylla, Sassia tetraphylla
When it flowers
Flowers January to February and April to August 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
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to C. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 10 cm to 15 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Cape leadwortFlowers March and September to December, when this does not
Cotton RosemallowFlowers March and September to December, when this does not
Crimson bottlebrushFlowers March and September to December, when this does not
LantanaFlowers March and September to December, when this does not
Mexican petuniaFlowers March and September to December, when this does not
Tree DahliaFlowers March and September to December, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Klavertje vier
- Spanish
- Trébol de la suerte, Cruz de hierro
- French
- Oxalis à quatre folioles
- German
- Glücksklee
- Chinese
- 四葉酢漿草, 四叶酢浆草
- Swedish
- rosettoxalis, Rosettoxalis
- Chinese (China)
- 四叶酢浆草
- Japanese
- モンカタバミ
- Lithuanian
- Valgomasis kiškiakopūstis
- Polish
- Szczawik czterolistny
- Russian
- Кислица четырехлистная
- Italian
- Acetosella quadrifoglio
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
- 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-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Oxalis tetraphylla (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.