More or less hairless, bulbous, erect to spreading perennial herb. Leaves with 3 leaflets to about 1 cm long, 2 mm wide, tip notched. Flowers solitary, 2-3 cm wide, white to purplish white with a yellow throat, the edges purple-violet, giving a striped appearance, hence the common name; summer to autumn.

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Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Oxalidaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.