Oxalis corniculata, Yellow woodsorrel,
Hebrew: חמציץ קטן, Arabic: فصيلة ابرة الراعي, Egypt: خمض "Hamd"

Scientific name:		Oxalis corniculata L.
Common name:		Yellow woodsorrel
Hebrew name:		חמציץ קטן
Arabic name:		فصيلة ابرة الراعي
Egypt:		خمض "Hamd"
Family:		Oxalidaceae, חמציציים

Life form:		Annual
Leaves:		Alternate, compound, trifoliate
Flowers:		Yellow
Flowering Period:		March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October
Habitat:		Cultivated areas
Distribution:		Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon
Chorotype:		Plurireginalbor-trop
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

Derivation of the botanical name: Oxalis, Greek oxys, acid, sour, sharp; referring to the taste of the leaves and the stem; Pliny used Latin oxalis, idis, for some species of Rumex. corniculata, with a small hornlike appendage, curved in de form of a horn. The Hebrew name: חמציץ, hamzitz, coined from חמץ (with reduplication of the צ) on the analogy of the name Oxalis, which derives from Latin oxalis (= a sort of sorrel). The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.