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  • COMMON NAME: Creeping lady's sorrel, Creeping oxalis, Creeping sorrel, Jimson weed, Oxalis, Wood sorrel, Yellow sorrel.
  • ARABIC: حميضة، حمض
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Oxalis corniculata L.
  • SYNONYMS: Acetosella corniculata, Oxys corniculata, Xanthoxalis corniculata.
  • FAMILY: OXALIDACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Umm-Al-Quwain , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual Perennial
  • REMARKS: Toxicity: poisonous. Toxic to livestock.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:177893-2/general-information#vernacular-names V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Moderately salt tolerant.
Annual or perennial, creeping herb. Stems many, procumbent, spreading mat-like, pubescent, rooting at the nodes, 5-25 cm long. Leaves on 1-7 cm long petioles, 3-foliolate, digitate; leaflets obcordate, 8-20 mm long, nearly bilobed or deeply emarginate, tomentose on the lower surface. Stipules auriculate. Flowers 1-6 in umbel-like cymes, on axillary peduncles, 3-7 cm long, bracts linear-subulate. Flowers yellow, about 1 cm long. Sepals 4-5 mm long, lanceolate, acute. Petals 8-10 mm long, with rounded apex. Stamens 10. Capsule cylindrical, 1-2 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, pubescent, 5-furrowed. Seed ovate, compressed, transversely ribbed, brown. Flowering from February to May.
A weed in gardens and orchards and along roadsides, waste and salty places.
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