Oxalis corniculata stipule1 (14727098233)

Description:

Description: Introduced, warm season herb. Branches are erect or ascending, sometimes creeping, to 30 cm long, sparsely to densely hairy, with spreading hairs. Roots are fibrous and branching, sometimes with a taproot. Leaves are cauline, 3-foliolate; the leaflets obcordate, bilobed, 4–13 mm long, 24–11 mm wide. Stipules are usually conspicuous; apex more or less truncate. Flowerheads are 1–6-flowered. Petals are 6–7 mm long and yellow. Fruit are more or less erect, usually on deflexed pedicels, not held above the leaves, long and usually slender-cylindrical, 8–16 mm long. Flowers from spring to autumn. A widespread weed, especially around habitation. Date: 21 July 2014, 20:13. Source: Oxalis corniculata stipule1. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.