| 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
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| Binomial name | |
| Oxalis bowiei | |
Oxalis bowiei, Bowie's wood-sorrel,[1][2] red-flower woodsorrel,[3] 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.[1]
It is named after James Bowie who collected plants for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew at the beginning of the 19th century.[2]
Its flowering stems may be a foot or more in height and are produced continuously for a considerable length of time during summer.[4]
- ^ a b "Oxalis bowiei". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Oxalis bowiei". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ^ "Oxalis bowieana". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 23 December 2007.