Auguste François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire 1825
Argentina,Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru
||Purple shamrock, Crimson Iron Cross, Mijke
triangularis, Kuntze 1891.
And quite some more; see below...
This member of the
Oxalidaceae family was described by Auguste François César
Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire in 1825. It is
found in most of South America, growing in peat with some water and some or lots of
sun. The single leaves will reach 25 centimetres up from the buried
rhizome. The flowers are white, and it can be produced both by seeds
Also seen on IPNI as
Geraniaceae and Polygonaceae Acetosella triangularis