Description: English: :Original title: Violet Wood Sorrel - Ionoxalis violacea (Linnaeus) Small - Plate 121a Current accepted name: Oxalis violacea L. Common names: Violet wood-sorrel, Violet woodsorrel, Purple woodsorrel. Date: 1918. Source: Wild Flowers of New York Part 1, University of the State of New York, State Museum, Albany.. Author: Homer D. House, New York State Botanist. Walter B. Starr of the Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, and Harold H. Snyder of the Zeese-Wilkinson Company, New York, photographers.