Mijke Oxalis
The rich burgundy triangular leaves created a dramatic backdrop for these soft pink flowers to shine.
Oxalis, nicknamed ‘shamrock,’ is a great garden plant, but it can also be adaptable as a houseplant as well. They form lovely 8"-10" mounds of clover-like leaves with 5-petaled flowers that open wide in the sun.
A type of oxalis known as Wood sorrel is an edible wild plant that has been consumed by humans around the world for millennia. In Dr. James Duke's Handbook of Edible Weeds, he notes that the Kiowa Indian tribe chewed wood sorrel to alleviate thirst on long trips, that the Potawatomi Indians cooked it with sugar to make a dessert, the Algonquin Indians considered it an aphrodisiac, the Cherokee ate wood sorrel to alleviate mouth sores and a sore throat, and the Iroquois ate wood sorrel to help with cramps, fever and nausea.