What do you call these???

When I was growing up we called these buttercups. We used to put them under our chin and if our chin reflected the yellow it meant we liked butter...lol
But now I know these aren't true buttercups. I just have them everywhere and they are driving me crazy. Found out they're Oxalis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis

Would help if I posted the pic...duh.

The type of Buttercups we put under our chins were commonly called Cowslips, I believe.

I thought if you turned yellow you liked the boyz. Like if someone squeezed your knee and it tickled - you liked the boyz.

and after all these years and you squeezed my knee - I still like the boys!

Too funny Sherrie, never heard the knee thing.

Yes, that's a new one to me too. I'll admit that knees were not high on our list...

I grew up in suburbia and we used dandelions to see if you liked butter. Buettercups are prettier.

If you 'Google' Buttercup, Wikipedia has a picture of what I remember them to be. I haven't seen any in a long time.

I knew the knee thing! Yup, I always liked boys. Ha! Now I squeeze my son's knees. He likes boys too! He he...

I always called that clover.

I always called it sweetgrass

Yes - clover for me too. Only saw it on St. Pat's Day in the city, though.

Buttercups look like .....buttercups! lol http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=buttercups&gbv=2

Sweet grass has no flowers that I know of.
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=sweetgrass

Clover has white ,light pink, and dark pink rounded flowers....no yellow.
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=sweetgrass

Oxalis comes in several different colors.
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=oxalis

I want some yellow if anyone has any! This is what mine look like. They bloom from June on here...as a matter of fact they were still in bloom a few days ago.

I like the pink better!

seems you are right! It is yellow wood sorrel http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf8&q=Yellow%20Wood%20Sorrel&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi . Learn something new everyday!

we called that "Sour Clover" It was sour when we ate it.

Yes I remember it being sour too. But I loved it. I said sweet grass, I thought it was sweet something, maybe clover?

Just happened on this thread and I have to post to say that all the kids in the neighborhood where I grew up called it sweet grass too. (We called wild sorrel "sour grass").

I have never seen those over here on Long Island. The ones i call buttercups come up in the Spring, lol, different language???

And I prefer the yellow ones! So pretty, yellow brings happiness to my life and everyone elses, such a happy color!

Sorel it must be. It grows here everywhere.

Here in my yard too.

Me too but I need the yellow ones to go with these. Wouldn't that be pretty?

I'll trade ya!

Ok, now that we know what everyone calls it.....do you leave it alone or try to eradicate it??

eradicate it

Yes, Yellow Wood Sorrel (Jen's photo) is an annoying weed - it grows everywhere in my yard; but, luckily it pulls up easy. Edit: the Wild Sorrel or "sour grass" is even more annoying because it grows by underground runners - just about impossible to get rid of.

Pixie - I have a pot of this Oxalis hedysaroides 'Rubra' that is a gorgeous bright yellow. It's a zone 10, so has to be brought in for winter. I'll gladly send you some of it if you want. Let me know. (Google photo, not mine)

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Thank you anyways Sue, but I wanted a hardy one to put with the pinks. It's really very pretty though....the red foliage and yellow really stands out!!

Pixie, I had some Oxalis and I tried to transplant it from a pot to the ground and it broke! It's nice, though.

I found the bulbs that I planted and it's the same vendor too!! If anyone wants some, here's the guy I bought them from.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Hardy-Shamrock-10-Bulbs-Oxalis-adenophylla-Pink-Flower_W0QQitemZ350107048264QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item350107048264&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14


This is what they look like in my garden.

Just a note on the wild yellow sorrel: It IS sour because it has a HIGH % of Vitamin C in it, makes a GREAT addition to your salads, esp. if you put any kind of sweet stuff in your salads, such as raisins or apple pieces, etc. I munch on it in the garden while I'm working, and pull it when it becomes to invasive in planned flower beds, because I know it is SO ubiquitous I'll never run out. Oh, and I used to live on Long Island and it abounds everywhere there too!

Dang it, Pixie, I send that one guy more money every year than I have! Thanks ... I think!