While oxalis is sometimes known for the weedy members of the family, there are a great many non-weedy, fabulous oxalis garden plants. The genus oxalis is huge with over 800 members and only a few are badly behaved.
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Oxalis are deciduous, easy to grow and easy to share bulbous plants that make great accents for rock garden-like settings. The popular garden oxalis have wonderful leaf colors; silver, green and purple plus attractive small white, pink, or yellow, butterfly-attracting flowers. Oxalis leaves fold over at night or during droughts to conserve moisture, then pop back open during the day (this is called nyctinonasty). Charming!
Although oxalis are commonly sold as shamrocks, they are not true shamrocks, which belong to the genus trifolium. The genus oxalis is not even a close relative and the similarities in leaf form are coincidental. When you're ready to buy oxalis (false shamrock) for your perennial garden, we hope you'll check out our online list of oxalis for sale below.
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We received this oxalis nearly two decades ago and have not been able to track down a name for this wonderful cultivar, so we have christened it as Oxalis 'Silverado'. The 1' wide dome-shaped clump emerges in spring with four-leaf clover leaves of olive, highlighted by a bright central silver pattern. The clumps are adorned with white flowers held just above the foliage in late summer and early fall. This is another of the non-weedy, slow growing members of the genus, which make great garden specimens. Pot Size: 3.5" (24 fl. oz/709.77 ml)
Ode to Oxalis: Not a weed...never seen a seed, nor will it impede any gardening deeds...indeed, so continue to read. This charming, easy-to-grow, clump-forming, winter deciduous oxalis has deep velvety purple leaves edged with a wide black border, topped by tiny, light pink flowers in summer...extremely cute! Purple shamrock is a dynamite plant to blend into the perennial border or woodland garden. Some of our Zone 6 customers claim to be growing this successfully through their winters. Pot Size: 3.5" (24 fl. oz/709.77 ml)
Oxalis crassipes 'Rosea' is an amazing bulbous perennial that produces a 10" tall x 1' wide perennial clump of trifoliate green leaves, topped with hundreds of small pink flowers. In cool climates, the flowering starts in early May (NC) and continues until frost, but in hot summer climates, the plant goes dormant once the weather warms and remains dormant until the weather cools in fall and the flowering resumes. Pot Size: 3.5" (24 fl. oz/709.77 ml)
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