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Your search found 50 taxa in the family Euphorbiaceae, Spurge family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Spurge-nettle, Tread-softly, Bull-nettle, Finger-rot
Look for it in sandhills, dry sandy woodlands, other dry sandy soils
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Doveweed, Tooth-leaved Croton, Sand Croton
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native? its pre-Columbian range obscure because of its weedy nature
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Common Name:
Silverleaf Croton, Gulf Croton, Beach-tea
Look for it on beach dunes, in coastal grasslands, usually with Uniola paniculata and/or Spartina patens
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Prairie-tea Croton, One-seed Croton
Look for it pn limestone outcrops, blackland prairies, disturbed dry soil
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Woolly Croton, Hogwort, Capitate Croton
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in NC & SC)
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia, original native distribution unclear
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Common Name:
Alabama Croton
Look for it in dry to mesic limestome glades, woodlands, and wooded ravines
Rare, endemic to scattered populations in c. AL
Native: west of Georgia
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Common Name:
Silver Croton, Sandhill Croton, Healing Croton
Look for it in Sandhills
Common
Native to Georgia
Look for it on shores and exposed drawdown zones of clay-based Carolina bays and limesink ponds (dolines)
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in sandhills, disturbed sandy soils
Uncommon in GA, rare northward
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Outcrop Rushfoil, Willdenow's Croton, Glade Rushfoil, Broadleaf Rushfoil
Look for it on granitic flatrocks, diabase barrens, calcareous barrens, thin soils around other rock outcrops, disturbed sandy soil
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Virginia Threeseed Mercury, Virginia Copperleaf, Shortstalk Copperleaf
Look for it in woodlands and disturbed ground
Common (rare in Coastal Plain of NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Slender Threeseed Mercury, Slender Copperleaf, Shortstalk Copperleaf
Look for it in woodlands, disturbed ground
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Threeseed Mercury, Rhombic Copperleaf
Look for it in woodlands, disturbed ground
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pineland Threeseed Mercury, Hophornbeam Copperleaf, Roughpod Copperleaf
Look for it on disturbed ground
Uncommon (rare in Carolina Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in disturbed ground
Rare
Non-native: West Indies, Mexico, Central America, northern South America
Common Name:
Castor-bean, Castor-oil Plant, Palma Christi
Look for it in waste places, gardens
Rare
Non-native: northeast Africa
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Common Name:
Wavyleaf Noseburn, Southeastern Noseburn
Look for it in sandhills, sandy woodlands, other woodlands
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Nettleleaf Noseburn, Tragia
Look for it in dry woodlands and rock outcrops, particularly over mafic or calcareous rocks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Queen's-delight
Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, dryish Coastal Plain woodlands, other dry woodlands
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Corkwood, Water Toothleaf
Look for it in ponds in pine flatwoods
Uncommon in GA, rare in SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Popcorn Tree, Chinese Tallow-tree
Look for it on marsh edges, shell deposits, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Piedmont)
Non-native: east Asia
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Look for it in swamp forests, other wet to moist, mostly shaded, habitats
Common (rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Leaf-flower
Look for it on roadsides, in moist woodlands, forests, and fields, often in seasonally wet, muddy places
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mascarene Island Leaf-flower
Look for it in disturbed areas, esp in and around greenhouses
Uncommon (rare north of SC Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont)
Non-native: Mascarene Islands
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Common Name:
Chamber Bitter
Look for it in gardens and on roadsides, apparently preferring nitrogen-rich soils
Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont
Non-native: tropical southeast Asia
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Common Name:
Toothed Spurge, Green Poinsettia, Wild Poinsettia, Painted Leaf
Look for it in disturbed areas, hedgerows, thickets, railroad cinders
Common
Native: western North America
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Common Name:
Wild Poinsettia, Painted Leaf, Fire-on-the-mountain
Look for it in disturbed habitats, dunes
Uncommon north of FL
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia? the original range obscure
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Common Name:
Fiddler's Spurge, Mexican Fireplant
Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Woodland Spurge, Tinted Spurge, Wood Spurge
Look for it in rich forests & rock outcrops, over calcareous or mafic rocks
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain, rare in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cypress Spurge, Graveyard Spurge
Look for it on roadbanks, in graveyards, waste places
Common
Non-native: Europe
Look for it in rich moist forests in bottomlands or on slopes, in rich soil around rock outcrops, in swamps or seeps, especially over calcareous rocks (such as dolomite) or mafic rocks (such as amphibolite)
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Caper Spurge, Myrtle Spurge, Mole Plant
Look for it in roadsides, disturbed areas
Uncommon (rare in NC, SC)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Carolina Ipecac, Wild Ipecac, American Ipecac
Look for it in sandhills, other dry barren sands
Common (rare in GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
White Sandhills Spurge, Curtis's Spurge
Look for it in sandhills
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Maroon Sandhills Spurge, Coastal Sand Spurge, Purple Sandhill-spurge
Look for it in sandhills
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Flowering Spurge
Look for it in woodlands and forests
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
False Flowering Spurge, Southeastern Flowering Spurge, Southern Flowering Spurge
Look for it in dry woodlands, sandhills, cobblebars, rock outcrops, sandhills
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Spotted Spurge, Milk-purslane, Wartweed, Spotted Sandmat
Look for it in gardens, fields, disturbed places, crevices in pavement or sidewalks
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Seaside Spurge, Dixie Sandmat
Look for it in open sands of dunes, dune blowouts and overwashes, often growing with perennial grasses such as Uniola paniculata, but preferring open sands with little competition, sometimes mixed with the more common E. polygonifolia
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Dune Spurge, Northern Seaside Spurge, Northern Sandmat
Look for it open sands of dunes, upper beach, dune blowouts and overwashes, sometimes growing with perennial grasses such as Uniola paniculata, but preferring open sands with little competition, sometimes mixed with the less common
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eyebane, Nodding Spurge
Look for it in fields, gardens, waste places, disturbed ground
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pillpod Sandmat, Hairy Spurge
Look for it in fields, disturbed ground, waste areas, in and around greenhouses, perhaps only adventive in the northern part of our area
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
graceful sandmat
Native. Reported for SC, FL, GA, LA?
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Common Name:
Hyssopleaf Sandmat
Look for it on disturbed ground
Common in GA, rare in SC
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Look for it in sandhills
Uncommon
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Cumberland Spurge, Mercury Spurge
Look for it in rich moist forests over mafic or calcareous rocks
Common in GA Mountains & adjacent provinces, rare elsewhere (endemic)
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
grassleaf spurge
Look for it in landscaped areas, other disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: tropical America
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Common Name:
Japanese Bishopwood, Javawood, Toog, Uriam
Non-native: southern Asia & Australia
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Common Name:
Tung-oil Tree
Look for it . It is planted for the oil and for ornament. It has naturalized on the Gulf Coastal Plain and shows a tendency to naturalize in the NC Coastal Plain
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC
Non-native: China
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