Seasonal Wild Flowers

Pink-sorrel

Oxalis articulata

Oxalidaceae

April to September

It is scattered throughout the country but is more

common in the Southwest, East Anglia, the far South

and the Southeast.

It is planted in gardens throughout the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Pink-sorrel

It is a neophyte which has been grown in gardens since the

1780s and recognised as an escape since the 1910s.

It is naturalised on disturbed ground, brownfield and waste

sites,

by roads and on seashores.

Pink-sorrel is a rhizomatous, perennial herb growing up to

35cm.

Flowers are pale to dark pink, up to 1.5cm across and in

an umbel.

There are 5 stamens with yellow anthers.

Leaves are 3-lobed with pale orange spots on the

undersides of older leaves.

It spreads mainly by rooting rhizome fragments.

Pink-sorrel on a hedge-bank, Devon

An umbel of flowers

Purple, veined petals, 5 stamens

Side view

Leaf

Orange spots on under surface of leaves