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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tragia urens   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Tragia urens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12 (2016)

Tragia urens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 107-06-001:

Tragia urens   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

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

Tragia linearifolia

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

Tragia urens

 

COMMON NAME:
Wavyleaf Noseburn, Southeastern Noseburn, Sandhill Noseburn


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image of Tragia urens, Wavyleaf Noseburn, Southeastern Noseburn, Sandhill Noseburn

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_trur_001_lvd

        

image of Tragia urens, Wavyleaf Noseburn, Southeastern Noseburn, Sandhill Noseburn

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_tragia_urens1

June    Scotland County    NC

Smaller than T. urticifolia and without stinging hairs, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).

image of Tragia urens, Wavyleaf Noseburn, Southeastern Noseburn, Sandhill Noseburn

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_tragia_urens1b

June    Scotland County    NC

Leaves narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate to linear, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Tragia urens   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tragia urens   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Tragia urens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12
Tragia urens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 107-06-001:
Tragia urens   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Tragia linearifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Tragia urens

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3460

Forb
Perennial
Monoecious

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, sandy woodlands, pine rocklands, other dry woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in NC Piedmont, rare in elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

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

IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stinging trichomes absent

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Petioles 1-3mm long
Margins wavy to irregularly serrate to entire
Leaves are subtended by stipules.

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellowish-green/ Purplish
3-5 sepals in staminate flowers, 3-8 sepals in pistillate flowers
Petals absent
2-3 stamens in staminate flowers
Unisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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