While gardens are in full bloom now, it might be hard to notice that you’ve got a pretty, but perhaps unwelcome flower in the bunch – the tall, blooming, yellow oxalis. Oxalis is a persistent weed to ...

India (Bombay Presidency; Rajasthan, western); leaves boiled and eaten; (Madras Presidency): leaves and tender shoots eaten as greens. (Deccan): seeds eaten; (Garhwal Himalayas): leaves acrid to taste ...

No sooner do we turn the calendar page to March than we begin to see hints that St. Patrick’s Day is approaching. Corned beef is featured at grocery stores and sandwich shops, green beer gets a ...

It is probably safe to say that all gardeners in the Bay Area at some point will be confronted with the invasive weed known as oxalis. Two species of oxalis are common in the Bay Area: Oxalis ...

A friend told me recently that she has a new ground cover in her yard. And she wasn’t happy about it. “It’s oxalis,” she said. “And it’s everywhere.” I have been wondering myself about the recent ...

Q: Last year, we paved part of the patio with 18-inch square pavers. It looks great and is remarkably level to two amateurs having done all the work. It’s just now we have this creeping weed that is ...

We found a 'weed', which measures 6.5 inches from fleshy root to top of the leaves which we keep finding in our veg patch. It looks like a member of the shamrock/clover family and has very strange ...

Q. Ten years ago a friend gave my wife a pretty purple flower growing out of a three-leaf clover. Now we have the stuff all over the yard -- in the grass and in flower beds. -- R.D.G., Houston A. You ...

Creeping oxalis is a small perennial weed that grows from stolons (creeping stems) and is typically found in lawns. Unlike many oxalis species such as pink shamrock (Oxalis vallicola), it doesn’t have ...