Oxalis Species, African Wood Sorrel, Bermuda Buttercup, Cape Sorrel, Yellow Sour Grass
Oxalispes-caprae
Synonym
Oxalis
cernua
Oxalis
pes-caprae var. pleniflora
Oxalis
pes-caprae f. pleniflora
Kill it with fire! Horribly, horribly invasive here in San Francisco, if you don’t religiously pull it up year after year. It’s easy ...Read More
From what I've read, this plant does not produce any viable seed. So, if you don't plant it in the ground, or allow the bottom of its po...Read More
En masse sour grass is very pretty, but being extremely invasive, it will take over your garden and you will never be able to get rid of ...Read More
Oxalis pes-caprae was growing in my last garden, and I loved the freshness and golden beauty of its flowers. My camera loved them too! An...Read More
This is going to seem totally unbelievable to most but I seen it with my own eyes.
20 years ago my uncle had a large skin cancer o...Read More
I have been familiar with sour grass in Southern California for over 75 years. It is not a problem to control as the stalks pulI out ea...Read More
Agreeably invasive -- however, usually dies back and 'relents' to whatever else is growing. We let it grow amongst our succulents...then...Read More
In the Cali Bay Area here, I don't find this a problem. It's a naturalized exotic and is thus a weed and the deep-rooted tubers are hard ...Read More
My experience with this plant is largely positive. It arrived as a volunteer, but in three years in my yard it has been well-behaved and...Read More
I call it neutral because there are obvious downsides, but it is not without positives. It has edible stems that have a refreshing sour ...Read More
My great grandfather used to grow them in his yard by his cactus. They never grew out of that area and didnt seem to be much of a problem...Read More
I lived in California 62 years and never considered this plant a problem. It spreads but slowly. Pulling occasionally controls it and nor...Read More
The flowers of this plant are very cheery, especially during the gray early spring. Its invasiveness is a real problem, however, so I'm ...Read More
The only positive thing I have to say about this plant is that it isn't as hard to deal with as some of the other species of oxalis. It's...Read More
Somebody gave my grandmother, now dead, a piece of this plant probably sixty or seventy years ago, in New Orleans. She gave some to my mo...Read More
I just spent the day pulling this plant out of my raised bed - the one I had turned over and sifted to get rid of the bulbs last fall. S...Read More
It is such a pretty plant that I was unable to persuade some folks that the plant they were buying contained a weed. They were not inter...Read More
It is kind of pretty, the flowers smell nice on sunny days in January/February, and the bees seem to like it.
However, i...Read More
I would love to know why people call this a weed.
Grown in indirect sunlight, in a damp place.
Can be used in landscappin...Read More
Oxalis pes-caprae, a.k.a. Bermuda buttercup, soursob or sour grass, is a South African native, with its fluorescent yellow five-petaled f...Read More