OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Croton elliottii   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

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

Croton elliottii

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

Croton elliottii

 

COMMON NAME:
Elliott's Croton, Pondshore Croton


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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Croton elliottii   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12
Croton elliottii

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

 

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4225

Forb
Annual
Monoecious

Habitat: Shores and exposed drawdown zones of clay-based Carolina bays and limesink ponds (dolines), per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Petioles 5-20mm long
Margins entiire
Leaves do not have stipules.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
5 sepals in staminate flowers, 6-7 sepals in pistillate flowers
5 petals in staminate flowers, absent in pistillate flowers
Unisexual

Flowers in congested bisexual racemes

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall?
Capsule

 

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