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3890

Forb
Annual/Perennial
Monoecious
Has milky sap (latex)

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - SC

Common in GA, rare in SC

Look for it on disturbed ground, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Unisexual
Cyathium

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chamaesyce hyssopifolia FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

COMMON NAME:
Hyssopleaf Sandmat

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image of Euphorbia hyssopifolia, Hyssopleaf Sandmat

Keith Bradley kab_e_hyssopifolia_76007

June Miami-Dade County FL

Young stems and leaves glabrous; leaves serrulate, at least at the apex, per Weakley's Flora.

"Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed -- chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. ... It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods -- trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries ... God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools -- only Uncle Sam can do that." — John Muir