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):
Euphorbia polygonifolia   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chamaesyce polygonifolia   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

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

Euphorbia polygonifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 107-11-017:

Euphorbia polygonifolia   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

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

Chamaesyce polygonifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Dune Spurge, Northern Seaside Spurge, Northern Sandmat


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image of Euphorbia polygonifolia, Dune Spurge, Northern Seaside Spurge, Northern Sandmat

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_chpo6_001_lvd

        

image of Euphorbia polygonifolia, Dune Spurge, Northern Seaside Spurge, Northern Sandmat

JK Marlow    jkm090716_040

July    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

image of Euphorbia polygonifolia, Dune Spurge, Northern Seaside Spurge, Northern Sandmat

JK Marlow    jkm090716_055

July    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

Milky sap.

image of Euphorbia polygonifolia, Dune Spurge, Northern Seaside Spurge, Northern Sandmat

JK Marlow    jkm090716_089

July    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

Smooth, creeping to ascending, with stems radiating from a taproot, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

image of Euphorbia polygonifolia, Dune Spurge, Northern Seaside Spurge, Northern Sandmat

JK Marlow    jkm0309q_25

September    Georgetown County    SC

Huntington Beach State Park

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chamaesyce polygonifolia   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12
Euphorbia polygonifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 107-11-017:
Euphorbia polygonifolia   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

563

Forb
Annual
Monoecious

Habitat: Open sands of dunes, upper beach, dune blowouts and overwashes, sometimes growing with perennial grasses such as Uniola paniculata, but preferring open sands with little competition, sometimes mixed with the less common E. bombensis, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Petaloid appendages of glands small, whitish
Cyathium
Unisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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