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Read more about Slender Threeseed Mercury at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Acalypha gracilens
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Acalypha gracilens
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 107-04-002:
Acalypha gracilens
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Acalypha gracilens
COMMON NAME:
Slender Threeseed Mercury, Slender Copperleaf, Shortstalk Copperleaf
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_acgr2_001_lvd
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_acalypha_gracilens_1
July Catawba County NC
Stems erect, pubescent. Leaf petioles 0.2-1.2(-1.8)cm, per Flora of North America.
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_acalypha_gracilens_2
August Catawba County NC
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JK Marlow jkm160907_069
September Greenville County SC
Leaves 3-6× as long as wide, the largest < 2 cm wide, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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JK Marlow jkm160907_072
September Greenville County SC
Inflorescences axilary, bisexual (pistillate flwrs proximal, staminate distal), per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm200920_7311
September Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Leaves pubescent, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, apex obtuse, margin crenate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm200920_7311b
September Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Pistillate bracts sessile-glandular, lobes deltate, 1/10–1/4 bract length, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm200920_7312
September Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Teeth of the involucral bracts triangular (vs. lanceolate in A. rhomboidea), per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm200920_7313
September Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm201006_7638
October Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm201006_7641
October Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm201026_7933
October Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm201026_7935
October Greenville County SC