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Species
Euphorbia heterophylla L. (1753)
IUCN
NCBI
EOL Text
Native of central America, now a pantropical weed.
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Flowering and fruiting: June-August
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Field Tips
Upper floral leaves form a green rosette. Presence of milky white latex.
Flower
Cyathia in terminal clusters, greenish yellow. Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
A capsule. Seeds angled, green. Fruiting throughout the year.
Leaf Apices
Acute
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf Bases
Acute
Leaf Margins
Entire
Leaf Shapes
Oblanceolate
Leaf Types
Simple
Habit
An erect herb.
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Annual.
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Herbs, annual, erect to 1 m tall, often tinged red. Stem glabrous to sparsely pilose at apex, hollow. Leaves alternate; stipules purplish glands, fairly conspicuous; petiole to 2(-4) cm; leaf blade ovate, to 12 × 6 cm, abaxially pilose especially on midrib and veins, glabrescent, adaxially glabrous to sparsely pilose near margin, base cuneate, margin with minute distant gland-tipped teeth, apex obtuse. Cymes terminal and axillary, each forking ca. 5 times, cyathia densely clustered; basal bracts similar to leaves but paler green, progressively smaller. Cyathia ca. 3.5 × 2.5 mm; involucre barrel-shaped, glabrous; gland ca. 1 mm, funnel-shaped, opening circular, ca. 1.2 mm across, often red-rimmed; lobes ca. 1.3 mm, subcircular, deeply toothed with minutely ciliate margins. Male flowers: bracteoles few, ligulate, feathery; stamens ca. 4 mm. Female flower: ovary pedicellate, glabrous or occasionally minutely puberulent, perianth forming an obvious rim; styles ca. 1 mm, occasionally minutely puberulent, bifid to halfway. Fruiting pedicel reflexed to 6 mm; capsule exserted, ca. 4.5 × 5.5 mm, deeply 3-lobed. Seeds conical, ca. 2.6 × 2.4 mm, apex acute, bluntly warty, blackish brown.
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Erect annual, up to 60 cm.
Hierba.
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure
heterophylla: with differently-shaped leaves (see note above)