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Oxalis magellanica

A tiny creeping wood sorrel with trifoliate leaves and small white flowers, forming mats in cool, wet grassland, herbfield and forest margins around the southern Pacific. It wants constantly moist, cool conditions and suffers in heat or drought.

Oxalis magellanica
Photo: Denis Barthel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

Damp grassland, alpine and subalpine herbfield, bog margins and open forest edges, often spreading by thin rhizomes among other low plants. Based on the measured climate and general knowledge of the species.

Recorded from about 30 to 3,600 m, median about 1,020 m; it reaches the lowlands in the far south and only high mountains in New Guinea.

New ZealandTasmaniaVictoriaNew GuineaChile CentralChile SouthArgentina South

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.