Taxon: Oxalis acetosella L.

Common names:

• cuckoo-bread   (Source: Dict Gard )
  
• European wood-sorrel   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• Irish shamrock   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• wood-sorrel   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• alleluia   (Source: HerbSpices ) [French]
  
• Sauerklee   (Source: HerbSpices ) [German]
  
• acetosella   (Source: HerbSpices ) [Italian]
  
• azedinha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) [Portuguese (Brazil)]
  
• acederilla   (Source: HerbSpices ) [Spanish]
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide HerbSpices)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2, as O. montana)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

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View toxicology references for Oxalis acetosella from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Soviet Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; Nepal
  Indo-China: Myanmar [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

References:

• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt) [mentions].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Lourteig, A. 2000. Oxalis L. subgéneros Monoxalis (Small) Lourt., Oxalis y Trifidus Lourt. Bradea 7(2):516.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Oxalis acetosella.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Oxalis acetosella. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Oxalis montana Raf.
  

Check other databases for Oxalis acetosella L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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