Oxalis L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 433 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Cosmopolitan.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Bahamas, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Buryatiya, California, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central European Russia, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Fiji, Finland, Florida, France, Free State, French Guiana, Føroyar, Galápagos, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Juan Fernández Is., Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Labrador, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Louisiana, Madagascar, Maine, Malawi, Manchuria, Manitoba, Marquesas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russia, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Nova Scotia, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southwest Caribbean, Spain, Sudan-South Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Tuva, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Afghanistan, Andaman Is., Ascension, Azores, Baleares, Benin, Bermuda, Borneo, Burkina, Cambodia, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Republic, Chad, Christmas I., Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Crozet Is., Cyprus, Desventurados Is., Djibouti, East Aegean Is., Easter Is., Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Hawaii, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kerguelen, Kermadec Is., Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Liberia, Libya, Madeira, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Montana, Morocco, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, Nicobar Is., Niue, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Palestine, Pitcairn Is., Qinghai, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Society Is., Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South China Sea, South European Russia, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tadzhikistan, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Tristan da Cunha, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1968). Flora Europaea 2: 1-469. Cambridge University Press.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 1: 295.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 198 (1754).
  • Sp. Pl. 1: 433 (1753)

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Shevtsov, V. (2022). Personal Communication on South European Russia. 1.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin & G. Moggi [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 198 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl.: 433 (1753)

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection
  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
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  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
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  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images
  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
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