| Bowie's wood-sorrel | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Oxalidales |
| Family: | Oxalidaceae |
| Genus: | Oxalis |
| Species: | O. bowiei |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxalis bowiei W.T.Aiton ex G.Don | |
Oxalis bowiei, Bowie's wood-sorrel, red-flower woodsorrel, or Cape shamrock, is a plant from the genus Oxalis, which is native to what was Cape Province and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It has also been naturalized in Australia.
It is named after James Bowie who collected plants for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew at the beginning of the 19th century.
Its flowering stems may be a foot or more in height and are produced continuously for a considerable length of time during summer.
References
- ^ "Oxalis bowiei". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
- ^ Groom, Quentin (2019-03-15). "Typification of Oxalis bowiei W.T.Aiton ex G.Don (Oxalidaceae)". PhytoKeys (119): 23–30. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.119.33280. ISSN 1314-2003. PMC 6430744. PMID 30930650.
- NRCS. "Oxalis bowiei". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- "Oxalis bowieana". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
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