NOTES: Tiny petal-less flowers form in dense clusters of palmately lobed, leafy bracts at the leaf axils, with separate male and female flowers.
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Common Three-Seeded Mercury
Genus species:
Acalypha rhomboidea
Common Names:
Common Three-Seeded Mercury Rhombic Copperleaf Virginia 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.
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