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Species
Euphorbia heterophylla L. (1753)
IUCN
NCBI
EOL Text
Erect annual, up to 60 cm.
Hierba.
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure
heterophylla: with differently-shaped leaves (see note above)
760-1100 m
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
"Notes: Open Localities / Moist Localities, Naturalized, Native of Tropical America"
"Robust annual herbs, glabrous to pilose. Leaves alternate below, opposite above, 4-12 x 0.3-7 cm, broadly ovate, elliptic, obovate, or panduriform, rarely linear, glabrous or pilose, margins entire to coarsely serrate, apex acute, short-acuminate, or short-cuspidate, base rounded to cuneate, green, sometimes floral leaves white or with splotches of purple at base, never red; petioles 1-4 cm long; stipules absent or minute and gland-like. Cyathia in dense terminal cymes; involucre 2-2.5 mm high, glabrous, gland 1, cup-shaped with a circular opening, without an appendage; staminate flowers numerous. Capsules subglobose, 3-4 mm long, glabrous; seeds dark brownish gray to black, sometimes mottled, truncate-ovoid, angled, 2-2.5 mm long, coarsely tuberculate, ecarunculate."
Stem and Leaf: In a decoction for stomachache.
Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Herb Distribution notes: Exotic