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§1 Plant

Oxalis corniculata L.

vernacular creeping woodsorrel — species · Oxalidaceae


USDA
OXCO
GBIF
8427624
Rank
species
creeping woodsorrel (Oxalis corniculata)
Platephotograph · jacinta lluch valeroCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Oxalidaceae R. Br.
Genus
Oxalis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 381 counties across 30 states/territories
Legend Native · 381 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 381 counties across 30 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 9 N
Arizona view state ↗ 6 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 33 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 59 N
Georgia view state ↗ 7 N
Illinois view state ↗ 9 N
Indiana view state ↗ 4 N
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 15 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 37 N
Maine view state ↗ 2 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N
Michigan view state ↗ 6 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N
Missouri view state ↗ 20 N
Montana view state ↗ 7 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 N
New York view state ↗ 15 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 7 N
Ohio view state ↗ 29 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 18 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 N
Vermont view state ↗ 2 N
Virginia view state ↗ 20 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 36 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 5 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/OXCO ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/8427624 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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