OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Croton elliottii   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae   Go to FSUS key


SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Croton elliottii   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Croton elliottii

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 OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Croton elliottii   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Croton elliottii   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Croton elliottii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Croton elliottii

 

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4225

Forb
Annual
Monoecious

Habitat: Shores and exposed drawdown zones of clay-based Carolina bays and limesink ponds (dolines), per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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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:
Summer/Fall?
Capsule

 

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