As you probably know by now, we love discovering new (to us) plants on our woodland walks, (as well as the weeds in our yard and garden)!

One recent discovery for our area in the Piedmont of North Carolina, zone 7, is this one little patch of Oxalis dillenii, commonly known as southern wood sorrel.

The Google image search matching our image is a southern wood sorrell, (Oxalis dillenii). While the shapes and growth patterns are the same, none of the many images we searched online had the same leaf coloration as our photo. But of course cross pollination of species happens, creating more variations.

Our guess is that the one we saw (pictured above), has a different leaf tint due to age or growing in more shade, causing a different color pigment to show up....? If you know more about this plant, please drop us a note, so we can learn and update this information for others as well.

And of course LeAura's automatic question: Is it edible or medicinal? The answer to both is "yes"❣️👍🏼😊🍃🌱🌿

Wishing you a most beautiful spring week!

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Coleman & LeAura

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