Oxalis luteola
A small yellow-flowered bulbous Oxalis of the south-western Cape, very common on the Cape Peninsula and Overberg lowlands. It grows and flowers in the cool, wet winter and goes fully dormant through the dry summer, so it needs a cool bright winter and a dry summer rest.
Where it grows wild
Lowland and coastal fynbos and renosterveld, mostly on sandy or stony flats and lower slopes of the Cape Peninsula, Cape Flats, Boland and Agulhas plain. A low geophyte in open vegetation.
Mostly near sea level to a few hundred metres; few records carry elevations.
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