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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Euphorbia polygonifolia
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
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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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_chpo6_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm090716_040
July Georgetown County SC
Huntington Beach State Park
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JK Marlow jkm090716_055
July Georgetown County SC
Huntington Beach State Park
Milky sap.
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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).
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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
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p346
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p493
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p432
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p212
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p082
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p047
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