Oxalis latifolia

#863 They called me Oxalis latifolia, also known as Oxalis eggersii, Oxalis buchtienii, and Ionoxalis buchtienii. I pay homage to the male botanists Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, and Buchtien (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1822.

Native to Arizona, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, California, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, and Windward Is..