Posts Tagged: oxalis

Bottoms Up

A recent visit to the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden found honey bees making a...yes...beeline...for the pink oxalis (Oxalis herta), a native of South Africa. Some folks consider oxalis, especially yellow oxalis, a "weed." Indeed, "oxalis management" is a key topic at park conferences, at garden...

Pink Oxalis

HONEY BEE, with tongue extended, makes a "beeline" for pink oxalis (Oxalis herta) in the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bottoms Up

BOTTOMS UP--This honey bee found this pink oxalis (Oxalis herta) to her liking at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden. She has to stretch to reach the nectar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

How Can I Control Creeping Wood Sorrel (Oxalis) in My Lawn?

 The lawn, from a distance, looks lush and green.  When walking across it, however, the exploding seed pods of the densely growing oxalis spread seeds across my boots and across my lawn.  In one year the newly planted cool season turfgrass has become an oxalis or creeping wood sorrel lawn. 

Creeping woodsorrel is a major weed in turf, ornamental plantings, gardens, and nurseries. Uninfested landscapes can become contaminated if infested container stock is used in plantings. As seed pods mature and expel seeds, creeping woodsorrel spreads from container to container, flower bed to flower bed, or across ornamental plantings and lawns....

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