Oxalis debilis
A bulbous pink-flowered wood sorrel from tropical and subtropical South and Central America, now a widespread garden weed around the world. It grows from clusters of small bulbils, takes sun to part shade, and dies back to its bulbs in dry or cold spells.
Where it grows wild
Grassland, forest edges, roadsides and disturbed moist ground, often in partial shade.
Recorded from sea level to about 1,100 m in the native records; elsewhere found higher.
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