4249

Forb
Annual
Monoecious

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (rare in Mountains)

Look for it on roadsides, in moist woodlands, forests, and fields, often in seasonally wet, muddy places, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Does not have milky sap

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked (leaves all well-developed)
Leaves are subtended by stipules.

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Not rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
yellowish-green or green
Unisexual
(5)6(7) sepals
Petals absent
3 stamens in staminate flowers

FRUIT:
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p463

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Phyllanthus caroliniensis   FAMILY Phyllanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phyllanthus caroliniensis ssp. caroliniensis   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

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

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 107-10-001:
Phyllanthus caroliniensis   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Phyllanthus caroliniensis