Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Chamaesyce hypericifolia
Chamaesyce hypericifolia (L.) Millsp.
Graceful Sandmat, Graceful Spurge, Chickenweed, Large-spotted Spurge, Garden Spurge, Fluxweed, Baby's-breath Euphorbia
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge Family)
USDA Symbol: CHHY2USDA Native Status: L48 (N), HI (I), PR (N), VI (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Euphorbia hypericifolia
Tropical Euphorbia
Euphorbiaceae
Location: 85 Campden Circle (rear gardent)--Oakwell Farms--San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Moist, semi-shaded, alluvial soil. Few & scattered.
Description: 45 cm, erect (stiffly) annual, from 9 cm taproot. Glabrous throughout. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, slightly falcate, rounded both ends, marginally serrate near base and apex, petioled (1 mm), stipitate, cyathia strongly clustered in lateral & terminal glomerules. Appendages round, white. Capsule ovoid, rounded triangular, 1.3 long. Seed ovoid, .5 x 1 mm.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jun 19, 1993
Specimen number: 501
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0765
Accession Date: May 26, 1994
Accession Number: 58
Annotations: Sub-Group: Chamaesyce
(In flower & fruit)
MCFRB