Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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3669

Forb
Annual

Non-native: tropical America

Documented growing wild in - - SC

Rare

Look for it in landscaped areas, other disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Petaloid appendages of glands white
Unisexual
Cyathium with 5 glands

FRUIT:
Capsule

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Euphorbia graminea   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Euphorbia graminea   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
 Agaloma graminea

 

COMMON NAME:
 grassleaf spurge

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image of Euphorbia graminea, grassleaf spurge

Keith Bradley    kab_e_graminea_06908

March    Miami-Dade County    FL

Cyathia have white petaloid appendages; capsules exserted, glabrous, ~2x3mm, per Euphorbia graminea (Euphorbiaceae), New to the Bahamas (Vincent, 2013).