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Oxalis pes-caprae

Pauatahanui Inlet.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 10/06/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Trentham, Upper Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 07/09/2014, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Pauatahanui Inlet.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 10/06/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Trentham, Upper Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 07/09/2014, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Trentham, Upper Hutt.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 07/09/2014, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Oxalis pes-caprae in full flower as hedge weed, Jesmond Terrace, Mt Albert, Auckland.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Date taken: 15/09/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Leaves arising from underground stolons, flowers in false umbels; Forres St, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 07/09/2001, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Paekakariki.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 08/10/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

Bermuda buttercup

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Category

Vascular

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

Yellow

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Family

Authority

Oxalis pes-caprae L.

Endemic genus

No

Endemic family

No

Ecology

Year naturalised

1883

Origin

South Africa

Life cycle and dispersal

Reproduces by bulbils.

Other information

Etymology

oxalis: From the Greek word oxus meaning acid or sharp