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Common Name:
Spurge-nettle, Tread-softly, Bull-nettle, Finger-rot
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Cnidoscolus stimulosus
Central flower [of each cyme] usually pistillate, lateral usually staminate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Doveweed, Tooth-leaved Croton, Sand Croton
White-vevety flowers in terminal clusters, not woolly only slightly hairy, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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Common Name:
Silverleaf Croton, Gulf Croton, Beach-tea
No other plant on the dunes even closely resembles this plant, per A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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Common Name:
Prairie-tea Croton, One-seed Croton
Flowers minute. Male 3-5 tiny petals & sepals; female 5 sepals, no petals, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
Common Name:
Woolly Croton, Hogwort, Capitate Croton
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Croton capitatus
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Common Name:
Alabama Croton
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Croton alabamensis
Pistillate flowers with well-developed, greenish petals, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Silver Croton, Sandhill Croton, Healing Croton
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Croton argyranthemus
Petals of staminate flowers lepidote [scurfy], per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Croton elliottii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Circumscription of Croton section Crotonopsis (van Ee & Berry, 2009)
Croton michauxii var. michauxii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Croton michauxii
Common Name:
Outcrop Rushfoil, Willdenow's Croton, Glade Rushfoil, Broadleaf Rushfoil
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Circumscription of Croton section Crotonopsis (van Ee & Berry, 2009)
Croton michauxii var. elliptica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Croton willdenowii
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Common Name:
Virginia Threeseed Mercury, Virginia Copperleaf, Shortstalk Copperleaf
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Acalypha virginica
Axillary spikes with pistillate flowers near the base, staminate toward apex, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Slender Threeseed Mercury, Slender Copperleaf, Shortstalk Copperleaf
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Acalypha gracilens
Bracts subtending pistillate flwrs 9-15(16) lobed, longest lobe < 2mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Common Threeseed Mercury, Rhombic Copperleaf
SYNONYMOUS WITH
World checklist of Euphorbiaceae (Govaerts, Frodin & Radcliffe-Smith, 2000)
Acalypha virginica var. rhomboidea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Acalypha rhomboidea
Flowers in axillary inflorescences; in each, staminate above, pistillate below, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Pineland Threeseed Mercury, Hophornbeam Copperleaf, Roughpod Copperleaf
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Acalypha ostryaefolia
Pistillate flowers chiefly in terminal spikes, staminate in axillary clusters, per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Acalypha setosa
Common Name:
Castor-bean, Castor-oil Plant, Palma Christi
Common Name:
Wavyleaf Noseburn, Southeastern Noseburn
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Common Name:
Nettleleaf Noseburn, Tragia
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Tragia urticaefolia
Spikes with 1-2 female flowers at base, 11-40 male flowers above, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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Common Name:
Queen's-delight
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Stillingia sylvatica var. sylvatica
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Stillingia angustifolia
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Stillingia spathulata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Stillingia sylvatica
Male flowers in a terminal spike, female flowers few and at its base, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Common Name:
Corkwood, Water Toothleaf
Tiny flowers are borne in a conspicuous cylindrical spike at branch tips, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Popcorn Tree, Chinese Tallow-tree
Slender drooping spike to 8" long, female flowers at base, male along spike, per A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Sebastiania fruticosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sebastiana ligustrina
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Common Name:
Carolina Leaf-flower
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Phyllanthus caroliniensis var. caroliniensis
INCLUDED WITHIN (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR)
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Phyllanthus carolinensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Phyllanthus caroliniensis
Flowers produced on ultimate and penultimate orders of branches, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Mascarene Island Leaf-flower
Long, capillary pistillate pedicels that are flexuous and pendent in fruit, per Flora of North America.
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Common Name:
Chamber Bitter
Male flowers borne toward branchlet tip, female flowers toward the base, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Toothed Spurge, Green Poinsettia, Wild Poinsettia, Painted Leaf
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Poinsettia dentata
Bracteal leaves usually whitish, pinkish or reddish, toward the base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Wild Poinsettia, Painted Leaf, Fire-on-the-mountain
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Poinsettia cyathophora
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Poinsettia heterophylla
Flowers have no petals or sepals. Upper lvs reddish (or white) at the base, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Fiddler's Spurge, Mexican Fireplant
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Poinsettia geniculata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Poinsettia heterophylla
Cyathial gland w a circular opening; bracteal leaves purple-spotted or green, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Woodland Spurge, Tinted Spurge, Wood Spurge
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Galarhoeus commutatus
Crescent-shaped yellow glands in involucre give "flowers" their color, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Cypress Spurge, Graveyard Spurge
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Galarhoeus cyparissias
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Tithymalus cyparissias
Bracteal leaves usually yellow-green. Glands of cyathia crescent-shaped, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Common Name:
Caper Spurge, Myrtle Spurge, Mole Plant
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Euphorbia lathyrus
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Common Name:
Carolina Ipecac, Wild Ipecac, American Ipecac
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Euphorbia arundelana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Tithymalopsis ipecacuanhae
Petaloid appendages of glands narrowly bordered with yellow or red, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
White Sandhills Spurge, Curtis's Spurge
Flowers grow on long stalks at branch ends and from leaf axils, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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Common Name:
Maroon Sandhills Spurge, Coastal Sand Spurge, Purple Sandhill-spurge
Cyathia and capsules maroon; petaloid appendages maroon-red, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Eastern Flowering Spurge
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Tithymalopsis corollata
Flowering June-Sept, inflorescences appearing corymbose and densely flowered, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
False Flowering Spurge, Southeastern Flowering Spurge, Southern Flowering Spurge
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN, IN PART
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Euphorbia corollata var. corollata
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Euphorbia apocynifolia
Flowering March-July, with the first flower situated between 2 lateral flowers, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Spotted Spurge, Milk-purslane, Wartweed, Spotted Sandmat
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Euphorbia maculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Chamaesyce maculata
1-2 cyathia in each leaf axil. Petaloid appendages of glands white or pink, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Common Name:
Southern Seaside Spurge, Dixie Sandmat
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Chamaesyce ingallsii
Common Name:
Dune Spurge, Northern Seaside Spurge, Northern Sandmat
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Chamaesyce polygonifolia
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Common Name:
Eyebane, Nodding Spurge