Oxalis pulchella
A bulbous Oxalis from the winter-rainfall Namaqualand and western Karoo of South Africa and southern Namibia. It grows and flowers in the cool, damp months and sleeps as a dry bulb through the hot summer, so growers need to follow that reversed calendar.
Where it grows wild
Grows in open, sunny, sandy or stony ground in succulent Karoo and fynbos-margin vegetation, as is typical of the winter-growing Cape Oxalis.
Few records carry an elevation; climate sites sit between about 230 and 840 m.
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