Your plant appears to be an Oxalis bred for its dark purplish-maroon-pink triangular shaped foliage. This plant is ideal in containers. Indoors needs bright indirect light. Leaves fold up when light levels drop. Grows from a bulb. Outdoors does well in full sun or light shade during mild weather. When planted in protected places in the northeast it may even live through mild winters, but it isn’t considered a perennial in your area.
Sometimes these plants lose their leaves as winter goes on – don’t worry, it’s not dead if yours does this. Keep the soil slightly moist but not wet, and when summer returns put the pot outside in a shady or part-shade location, and start to fertilize. Very quickly you’ll see new growth emerge.
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