Oxalis perennans
A small yellow-flowered wood sorrel native across southern and eastern Australia, growing from a thickened taproot in grassland and open eucalypt woodland. It is easy in a sunny pot or bed, takes light frost, and mostly grows through the cooler, moister months, sulking or dying back in hot dry summers.
Where it grows wild
Grassy woodland, open forest margins, pastures and disturbed ground in temperate and semi-arid southern Australia, often among grasses in partial shade of scattered eucalypts.
Mostly lowland to low hills; the few dated records sit at 430-800 m (median about 580 m), but it occurs from near sea level upward.
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