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SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Cnidoscolus stimulosus
Central flower [of each cyme] usually pistillate, lateral usually staminate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
White-vevety flowers in terminal clusters, not woolly only slightly hairy, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
No other plant on the dunes even closely resembles this plant, per A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
Flowers minute. Male 3-5 tiny petals & sepals; female 5 sepals, no petals, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Croton capitatus
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Croton alabamensis
Pistillate flowers with well-developed, greenish petals, per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Croton argyranthemus
Petals of staminate flowers lepidote [scurfy], per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Croton elliottii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Circumscription of Croton section Crotonopsis (van Ee & Berry, 2009)
Croton michauxii var. michauxii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Croton michauxii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Circumscription of Croton section Crotonopsis (van Ee & Berry, 2009)
Croton michauxii var. elliptica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Croton willdenowii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Acalypha virginica
Pistillate bracts hirsute below, and maybe stipitate-glandular; stems hirsute, per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Acalypha gracilens
Bracts subtending pistillate flwrs 9-15(16) lobed, longest lobe < 2mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
World checklist of Euphorbiaceae (Govaerts, Frodin & Radcliffe-Smith, 2000)
Acalypha virginica var. rhomboidea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Acalypha rhomboidea
Flowers in axillary inflorescences; in each, staminate above, pistillate below, per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Acalypha ostryaefolia
Pistillate flowers chiefly in terminal spikes, staminate in axillary clusters, per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Acalypha setosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Ricinus communis
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Tragia urticaefolia
Spikes with 1-2 female flowers at base, 11-40 male flowers above, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Stillingia sylvatica var. sylvatica
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Stillingia angustifolia
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Stillingia spathulata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Stillingia sylvatica
Male flowers in a terminal spike, female flowers few and at its base, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
Tiny flowers are borne in a conspicuous cylindrical spike at branch tips, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
Slender drooping spike to 8" long, female flowers at base, male along spike, per A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Sebastiania fruticosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sebastiana ligustrina
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Phyllanthus caroliniensis var. caroliniensis
INCLUDED WITHIN (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR)
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Phyllanthus carolinensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Phyllanthus caroliniensis
Flowers produced on ultimate and penultimate orders of branches, per Weakley's Flora.
Long, capillary pistillate pedicels that are flexuous and pendent in fruit, per Flora of North America.
Male flowers borne toward branchlet tip, female [and thus fruit] toward base, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Poinsettia dentata
Bracteal leaves usually whitish, pinkish or reddish, toward the base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Poinsettia cyathophora
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Poinsettia heterophylla
Flowers have no petals or sepals. Upper lvs reddish (or white) at the base, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Poinsettia geniculata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Poinsettia heterophylla
Cyathial gland w a circular opening; bracteal leaves purple-spotted or green, per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Galarhoeus commutatus
Crescent-shaped yellow glands in involucre give "flowers" their color, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Galarhoeus cyparissias
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Tithymalus cyparissias
Bracteal leaves usually yellow-green. Glands of cyathia crescent-shaped, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Euphorbia lathyrus
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Euphorbia arundelana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Tithymalopsis ipecacuanhae
Petaloid appendages of glands narrowly bordered with yellow or red, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Flowers grow on long stalks at branch ends and from leaf axils, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
Cyathia and capsules maroon; petaloid appendages maroon-red, per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Tithymalopsis corollata
Flowering June-Sept, inflorescences appearing corymbose and densely flowered, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN, IN PART
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Euphorbia corollata var. corollata
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Euphorbia apocynifolia
Flowering March-July, with the first flower situated between 2 lateral flowers, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Euphorbia maculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Chamaesyce maculata
1-2 cyathia in each leaf axil. Petaloid appendages of glands white or pink, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Chamaesyce ingallsii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Chamaesyce polygonifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Euphorbia preslii
Petaloid appendages of glands conspicuous, white or rarely pink, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Chamaesyce hirta
Cyathia borne in dense conspicuous clusters on peduncles 1cm or longer, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Chamaesyce hypericifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Tithymalopsis mercurialina
Several staminate flowers with yellow anthers & solitary pistillate flower, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
World checklist of Euphorbiaceae (Govaerts, Frodin & Radcliffe-Smith, 2000)
Euphorbia esula ssp. esula
INCLUDED WITHIN
Tithymalus esula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Agaloma graminea
Cyathia have white petaloid appendages; capsules exserted, glabrous, ~2x3mm, per Euphorbia graminea (Euphorbiaceae), New to the Bahamas (Vincent, 2013).
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2003)
Aleurites fordii
White petal lobes, throat splashed w red to maroon, lines radiating outward, per A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests.
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