Native Oxalis volunteers all over our yard but has really created a lovely ground cover in the front yard near the porch. I’ve tentatively identified it as Oxalis stricta.
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From Forest to Skillet: Edible and Native Plants in the Cross Timbers of Oklahoma. 751 yard species and counting!
Native Oxalis volunteers all over our yard but has really created a lovely ground cover in the front yard near the porch. I’ve tentatively identified it as Oxalis stricta.
The Tetraneuris is looking so pretty!
That’s a lot of oxalis!
You don’t think it will take water from your basil?
No, I think it will be a good “green mulch” and hold moisture in the soil, plus it’s a legume so it may provide some nitrogen.
That makes a very neat ground cover. And your daisy is such a cutie!