Biology:Oxalis hedysaroides

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Short description: Species of flowering plant


Fire fern
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Oxalidaceae
Genus: Oxalis
Species:
O. hedysaroides
Binomial name
Oxalis hedysaroides
Kunth

Oxalis hedysaroides, known as the fire fern, is not a fern but a flowering perennial plant native throughout Colombia and Ecuador.[1][2] It is a member of the woodsorrel genus (Oxalis) that grows to 30 cm height and 10 cm spread.

Oxalis hedysaroides

The plant gets its common name from the fact that its leaves, while starting green, turn a deep purple red with exposure to sun. Oxalis hedysaroides is a very mobile plant and will rotate its foliage significantly to follow the sun. At dusk, the plant can seem to quiver slightly as the red leaves partially close by folding in half.

The foliage of the fire fern is supported by branched wiry purple stems, and the plant produces small yellow flowers when in bloom.

Oxalis hedysaroides

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7115067 entry