Euphorbia serpens Kunth

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Euphorbiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Euphorbia serpens Kunth

• Description

  Species Description - Glabrous annual; stems prostrate, freely branched, 1-4 dm, the internodes of the branches very short and the plants thus very leafy; lvs broadly oblong to suborbicular, 2-7 mm, entire; stipules united into a scale-like structure often lobed or fringed at the tip; appendages very small; fr 3-angled, 1-1.5 mm; seeds quadrangular, smooth, 1 mm. Moist alluvial soil; s. Ont. to Mont., s. to Tenn., Fla., Ariz., and trop. Amer., and intr. here and there eastward. July-Oct. (Chamaesyce s.)

• Common Names

  round-leaved spurge