Hophornbeam Copperleaf
Scientific Name:Acalypha ostryifolia
Common Name Synonyms:Hornbeam Mercury, Rough-Pod Copperleaf, Hornbean Copperleaf, Pineland Threeseed Mercury


NOTES: An annual herb reaching a height of up to 75 cm (30 in) tall.[6] The stems are upright, branching, purplish-green with vertical striations, short recurved hairs and stalked glands. Its leaves are alternate, petiolate, simple and ovate, with serrate or dentate margins, a cordate base and slight pubescence, and grow to 10 cm (3.9 in) in length.[

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Hophornbeam Copperleaf
Genus species: Acalypha ostryifolia
Common Names: Hophornbeam Copperleaf
Hornbeam Mercury
Rough-Pod Copperleaf
Hornbean Copperleaf
Pineland Threeseed Mercury
Family Name: Euphorbiaceae  
Annual or perennial herbs, often with milky sap; leaves various, simple, stipules sometimes present; flowers unisexual (plants mostly monoecious), regular; fruit a capsule.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Green/Brown
Identified by:A. Swanson
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