Oxalis purpurea flower

This Oxalis purpurea plant lives up to its name, delivering pinkish purple flowers. Some O. purpurea plants present a variety of other colours while retaining the species features of shape and habit that allow identification.

The blue-green leaves are (nearly) flat on the ground. Each leaf has three round-tipped, wedge-shaped leaflets that join the short petiole (leaf stalk) and each other without petiolules (leaflet stalks).

The yellow bases of the five petals have no lines across them as for instance found on O. eckloniana (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iSpot).