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§1 Plant

Oxalis violacea L.

vernacular violet woodsorrel — species · Oxalidaceae


USDA
OXVI
GBIF
2891708
Rank
species
violet woodsorrel (Oxalis violacea)
Platephotograph · walkmicCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 1,235 counties across 34 states/territories
Legend Native · 1235 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 1,235 counties across 34 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 18 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 63 N
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 5 N
Georgia view state ↗ 27 N
Illinois view state ↗ 102 N
Indiana view state ↗ 49 N
Iowa view state ↗ 22 N
Kansas view state ↗ 65 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 79 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 25 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 6 N
Michigan view state ↗ 3 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 61 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 30 N
Missouri view state ↗ 102 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 33 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 10 N
New York view state ↗ 19 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 40 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 8 N
Ohio view state ↗ 62 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 43 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 46 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 26 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 18 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 62 N
Texas view state ↗ 46 N
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N
Virginia view state ↗ 77 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 39 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 30 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/OXVI ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2891708 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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