Oxalis hirta
A hairy, bulbous wood-sorrel from the Western Cape with trailing leafy stems and bright pink to mauve funnel-shaped flowers in autumn and winter. It grows through the cool, wet winter and goes dormant as a bulb in summer.
Where it grows wild
A common geophyte of sandy and granite-derived soils in fynbos and renosterveld, often on flats and lower slopes in full sun.
Recorded elevations are mostly under 300 m, though few records carry one; it is mainly a lowland plant.
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