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3937

Forb
Annual
Monoecious

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon

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, per Weakley's Flora

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

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Petaloid appendages of glands white (very small)
Unisexual
Cyathium
One cyathium per leaf axil

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Chamaesyce bombensis   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 107-11-016:
 Euphorbia ammannioides   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Chamaesyce ingallsii

 

COMMON NAME:
 Southern Seaside Spurge, Dixie Sandmat

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image of Euphorbia bombensis, Southern Seaside Spurge, Dixie Sandmat

Keith Bradley    kab_e_bombensis_6306

January    Brevard County    FL

Canaveral National Seashore

Leaves longer than wide, often fleshy. Stipules lacerate, seemingly 4 per node, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Euphorbia bombensis, Southern Seaside Spurge, Dixie Sandmat

Keith Bradley    kab_e_bombensis_6324

January    Brevard County    FL

Canaveral National Seashore

Prefers foredune rear (E. polygonifolia prefers foredune front or upper beach), per Weakley's Flora.