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Annual; stems to 8 dm, obliquely ascending at least in the upper half, the lower half often erect, the younger parts puberulent, often in a single longitudinal strip, with usually incurved hairs to 0.3 mm, the older parts glabrous or nearly so; lvs opposite, oblong or oblong-ovate, 1-3.5 cm, about a third as wide, serrulate, usually conspicuously inequilateral; fr 2-2.5 mm, strongly 3-lobed, glabrous; seeds gray or pale brown, 1-1.5 mm; 2n=12. Dry or moist soil; N.H. to Mich. and N.D., s. to Fla. and Tex.; abundant as a weed in lawns and gardens and intr. elsewhere in the world. June-Oct. (E. maculata, misapplied; E. preslii; Chamaesyce rafinesquii)

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

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