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Pink and Red Wildflower Gallery

Tube Flowers - Oxalis family

  

Oxalidaceae - Wood-sorrel family
Violet Wood-sorrel Oxalis violacea
Flower 1/2"-3/4" wide closes at dusk. Leaves are like "3-leaf clover" and fold down at dusk. This plant grows from a bulb and will bloom until frost if kept moist.
Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, April 2005
(Transplanted, native of Texas, but not of my area)

Variation

White variation

Similar Species

Oxalidaceae - Wood-sorrel family
Drummond's Wood-sorrel Oxalis drummondii
Small magenta flower with green/white inner tube. Leaves are like "3-leaf clover" sometimes with purple blotches.
(Native of Texas - Brown)

        

Oxalidaceae - Wood-sorrel family
Purple Shamrock Oxalis regnellii atropurpurea
Flower 1" wide closes at dusk. Purple leaves are like "3-leaf clover" with triangular leaflets. This plant grows from a bulb and will bloom until frost if kept moist.
Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, September 2006
(Purchased, native of South America)