Oxalis corniculata Seeds | Creeping Wood Sorrel
LATIN NAME: Oxalis corniculata
COMMON NAME: Creeping Wood Sorrel
Plant Profile
Oxalis corniculata, better known as Creeping Wood Sorrel, is a perennial in the wood-sorrel family. It is a plant of open, sunny, deep, moist, well-drained ground. Add these qualities together and you have a species well worth a place in the garden.
Science & Biotechnology
Seed science, comparative botany and horticultural selection all touch on Oxalis corniculata, a representative of the wood-sorrel family with clear practical value. Interest from collectors and breeders has never lapsed, and good seed continues to circulate.
Uses & Benefits
Beyond its ornamental appeal, Creeping Wood Sorrel has the practical versatility that makes a plant worth growing from seed year after year. Creeping wood sorrel is a fine, quiet plant of warm garden and study collection. It is a fine, quiet plant of open, sunny, deep, moist, well-drained garden. Give young plants deep, moist bed, and clover mats will spread over warm months. Getting it going is easy; keeping it going is easier still.
Sorrels are lemony wild edibles rich in vitamin C, lovely in small salad amounts; their oxalic acid means moderation, and the garden species are grown for clover-like foliage and bloom.
Growing from Seed
Sow fresh seed of Creeping Wood Sorrel under ordinary good conditions. Level a tray of loose seed compost, sow evenly, cover to about the seed’s own depth, and keep it moist in full light. When the young plants are big enough to handle, space them into pots or a nursery row and let them size up before their final move.
Our Take
Creeping Wood Sorrel repays a little patience at sowing time with plenty of garden presence later.
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