Compilation
Oxalis purpurata

stemless; bulb ovate, brownish; leaves on long petioles; petioles pilose, or very shortly pubescent; leaflets roundish-obcordate, the medial larger, glabrous above, appressedly pilose or downy underneath, ciliated; scape longer than the leaves, pilose or puberulent, umbellately 3–12-flowered; pedicels and calyx downy, often gland-bearing; sepals oblong, acute, or lanceolate, thrice as short as the corolla. 6 inches to a foot or more in height. Bulb moderate. Leaflets commonly semi-uncial, the larger inch long and wide; the medial sometimes 2 inch long, the lateral oblique at base. Pedicels of the umbel bibracteate at base, 1/2–1 inch long or longer, pilose or glabrate, or glandularly pubescent. Corolla 6–8 lines long, varying from white to deep rosy-purple. Like O. holosericea, Sond., in the form of the leaves, but with very different inflorescence.