Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Croton elliottii
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read The Disappearing Act of Croton elliottii from Linda Chafin and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Croton elliottii
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Croton elliottii
COMMON NAME:
Elliott's Croton, Pondshore Croton
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Croton elliottii
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Croton elliottii
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Croton elliottii
4225
Forb
Annual
Monoecious
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - SC
Rare
Look for it on shores and exposed drawdown zones of clay-based Carolina bays and limesink ponds (dolines), 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
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Petioles 5-20mm long
Margins entiire
Leaves do not have stipules.
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
Unisexual
5 sepals in staminate flowers, 6-7 sepals in pistillate flowers
5 petals in staminate flowers, absent in pistillate flowers
Flowers in congested bisexual racemes
FRUIT:
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!