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Ornamental - It is often grown as an ornamental where, at least in the tropics, it can be used as a ground cover. Medicine - The leaves of creeping wood sorrels were chewed for nausea, mouth sores, and sore throats and also used as poultices for sores and ulcers. A tea brewed from the leaves were used for fevers, scurvy, and urinary infections
Tropical & Subtropical America
Wet tropical biome.
Perennial herb.
Stemless, spreading through underground bulbs and stolons.
Trifoliate, with three heart-shaped leaflets.
Pink or white, arranged in umbels.
A capsule containing numerous small seeds.
Flowering:March- October.