Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Phyllanthus polygonoides
Phyllanthus polygonoides Nutt. ex Spreng.
Smartweed Leaf-flower, Knotweed Leafflower
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge Family)
USDA Symbol: PHPO3USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Phyllanthus polygonoides
Knot-Weed Leaf Flower
Euphorbiaceae
Location: Rear lawn (volunteer), 85 Campden Circle--Oakwell Farms.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Full sun, above average moisture; alkaline, alluvial soil. Scattered and few.
Description: 45 cm, erect, subfruticose, perennial, much branched from lower 1/4 of stalk. Leaves obovate, mucronate apically, obtuse and unsymetric basally. Flowers single in all axils (this specimen apparently pistillate only). Fruit dihescing, persistent, oblate. Seed copious, verrucose, about 1 mm long.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: May 26, 1987
Specimen number: 167
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0343
Accession Date: May 8, 1993
Accession Number: 27
Annotations: MCFRB