Monographs Details:
Authority:
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Family:
Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbiaceae
Description:
Species Description - Stem erect, usually branched, 2–6 dm, pubescent with incurved hairs, often also ± hirsute; petioles commonly much exceeding the bracts that they subtend and a third to half as long as the blades, or shorter in depauperate plants; blades lance-ovate, shallowly crenate; pistillate bracts 8–14 mm, deeply cleft into (9)10–15 oblong to linear acute segments, usually with some long, spreading hairs; staminate spikes equaling or slightly surpassing the bracts; 2n=40. Dry or moist open woods, fields and roadsides; Me. to Ind. and se. S.D., s. to Fla. and Tex.
Species Description - Stem erect, usually branched, 2–6 dm, pubescent with incurved hairs, often also ± hirsute; petioles commonly much exceeding the bracts that they subtend and a third to half as long as the blades, or shorter in depauperate plants; blades lance-ovate, shallowly crenate; pistillate bracts 8–14 mm, deeply cleft into (9)10–15 oblong to linear acute segments, usually with some long, spreading hairs; staminate spikes equaling or slightly surpassing the bracts; 2n=40. Dry or moist open woods, fields and roadsides; Me. to Ind. and se. S.D., s. to Fla. and Tex.
Common Names:
Virginia copperleaf
Virginia copperleaf