Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Tragia urens
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Wavyleaf Noseburn at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tragia urens
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 107-06-001:
Tragia urens
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Wavyleaf Noseburn, Southeastern Noseburn
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_trur_001_lvd
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_tragia_urens1
June Scotland County NC
Smaller than T. urticifolia and without stinging hairs, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_tragia_urens1b
June Scotland County NC
Leaves narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate to linear, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Tragia urens
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tragia urens
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 107-06-001:
Tragia urens
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
3460
Forb
Perennial
Monoecious
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont & Mountains)
Look for it in sandhills, sandy woodlands, other woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Does not have milky sap
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stinging trichomes absent
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Petioles 1-3mm long
Margins wavy to irregularly serrate to entire
Leaves are subtended by stipules.
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellowish-green/ Purplish
Unisexual
3-5 sepals in staminate flowers, 3-8 sepals in pistillate flowers
Petals absent
2-3 stamens in staminate flowers
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p190
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p312