. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Genus 3- SPURGE FAMILY. 3. Croton monanthogynus Michx. Single-fruited Croton C. moiianlhogyiiiis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 215. 1803. Annual, monoecious, silvery green, rather densely stellate-pubescent and somewhat glandular. Main stem slender, 4'-8'high, simple, or sparingly branched above, topped by a 3-5-rayed umbel with rays 5-15' long, forked or umbellately branche
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Genus 3- SPURGE FAMILY. 3. Croton monanthogynus Michx. Single-fruited Croton C. moiianlhogyiiiis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 215. 1803. Annual, monoecious, silvery green, rather densely stellate-pubescent and somewhat glandular. Main stem slender, 4'-8'high, simple, or sparingly branched above, topped by a 3-5-rayed umbel with rays 5-15' long, forked or umbellately branched; leaves ovate or oblong, s"-ii' long, entire or undulate, obtuse or subcordate at the base; petioles usually about half as long as the blades; staminate flowers clustered at the ends of erect peduncles, with 3-5 unequal calyx-segments, the same number of petals and scale- like glands, and 3-8 stamen?; pistilulate flowers mostly solitary, on recurved pedicels, with 5 equal calyx-segments, no petals, 5 glands and 2 sessile 2-cleft stigmas ; capsule ovoid or oblong-ovoid. 2"-2*" long, i-2-celled; seeds oval or orbicular, variegated, minutely pitted, shining. dry_soil. North Carolina_to Indiana and Kansas, June-Oct. Fig. south to Florida and Mexico. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York : Scribner
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