Croton humilis L.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Texas

• County/Municipio

  Hidalgo Co.

• Locality

  50-500 ft. N of old Military Highway, 300-500 ft. W of Sam Fordyce Rd., ca. 1.7-1.8 airmiles SE of jct US Rt. 83 and F.M. 886 at Sullivan City. Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge Sam Fordyce North Tract. Sullivan City Quadrangle

• Coordinates

  26.2567, -98.5319

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

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FLORA OF TEXAS
Rare Plant Surveys of
Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR Tracts
Texas Natural Heritage Program
Croton humilis L.
HIDALGO CO.: small shrubs 2-4 ft. tall; common in well drained,
limy, calcareous fine sandy loam Aridic Ustochrepts (McAllen Series)
over gravel and caliche of Goliad Formation (Pliocene), mixed thorny
shrubland on undulating upland, 50-500 ft. N of old Military Highway,
300-500 ft. W of Sam Fordyce Rd., ca. 1.7-1.8 airmiles SE of jet US
Rt. 83 and F. M. 886 at Sullivan City. Lower Rio Grande Valley
National Wildlife Refuge Sam Fordyce North Tract. Sullivan City
Quadrangle. 26015’24HN, 98°31’55HW.
Woody associates include Acacia berlandieri, Acacia rigidula, Aloysia inacrostachya,
Castela erecta ssp. texana, Ccltis pallida, Cordia boissieri, Croton incanus, Diospyros
texana, Ericameria austrotexana, Eysenhardtia texana, Forestiera angustifolia, Guaiacum
angustifolium, Karwinskia humboldtiana, Lantana sp., Leucophyllumfrutescens, Lippia
graveolens, Macrosiphonia macrosiphon, Parkinsonia texana, Phaulothamnus spinescens,
Pithecellobium pallens, Prosopis glandulosa, Salvia ballotiflora, Schaefferia cuneifolia,
Tiquilia canescens, Viguiera stenoloba, Yucca treculeana, Zanthoxylum fagara.
W. R. Carr	#13314	1 Feb 1994
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