Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Pale Pink-sorrel, Oxalis incarnata
Photographs: Garinish Island, Co. Cork

Pale Pink-sorrel
Oxalis incarnata
Family: Oxalidaceae

Flowering: May-July. Perennial. Introduced.

The solitary pale-pink flowers on long stalks have 5 petals with darker veins but the flowers do not set seed. Hairless pale-green tri-foliate leaves with heart-shaped leaflets. Grows from an underground bulb and the stem bears small bulbils.

An occasional garden escape or discard in shady hedgerows, walls and pavement cracks. Mainly found in south and south-east Ireland.

Similar: Pink-sorrel, O. articulata. Deep-pink flowers, larger leaves.

Pale Pink-sorrel, Oxalis incarnata

Pale Pink-sorrel, Oxalis incarnata
Pale Pink-sorrel, Oxalis incarnata

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