Oxalis depressa
A widespread small bulbous Oxalis of southern Africa, with pink flowers and low rosettes of trifoliate leaves. Most of its 846 wild records come from the winter-rainfall southern Cape, where it grows through the cool wet months and goes dormant in summer. Northern populations follow the summer rains instead.
Where it grows wild
It grows in fynbos, renosterveld and grassland in full sun or light shade, often in disturbed, sandy or loamy soil. It can be weedy in gardens.
It ranges from near sea level on the southern Cape coast to inland grassland plateaus well above 1,000 m.
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