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Euphorbia
Family: Euphorbiaceae Patrick Alexander	Gleason & Cronquist Resources Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Fls greatly reduced, the staminate consisting of a single stamen, the pistillate of a single pistil; several staminate fls surrounding one pistillate fl inserted at the base of a cupulate involucre, the whole constituting an infl termed a cyathium but simulating a single fl with a stipitate ovary; involucre 4-5-lobed, usually bearing glands in the sinuses; these in some spp. with white or colored petaloid margin; ovary 3-locular and 3- ovulate; styles 3, bifid; capsule 3-lobed, 3-seeded; herbs, shrubs, or trees of diverse form, with milky, often highly acrid juice. The several subgenera and even some of the sections have often been taken as distinct genera, but the boundaries are difficult to draw. 1500, cosmop. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: Santa Rita Experimental Range NEON (SRER) Plants - Desert Southwest (D14) Euphorbia albomarginata Map not Available Euphorbia alta Map not Available Euphorbia capitellata Map not Available Euphorbia chamaesula Map not Available Euphorbia cuphosperma Map not Available Euphorbia exstipulata Map not Available Euphorbia florida Map not Available Euphorbia gracillima Images not available Map not Available Euphorbia heterophylla Map not Available Euphorbia hirta Map not Available Euphorbia hyssopifolia Map not Available Euphorbia indivisa Images not available Map not Available Euphorbia lurida Map not Available Euphorbia melanadenia Map not Available Euphorbia nutans Map not Available Euphorbia pediculifera Map not Available Euphorbia prostrata Map not Available Euphorbia radians Map not Available Euphorbia revoluta Map not Available