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| Often with acrid milky juice. Small flowers sometimes lacking petals or sepals, bracts or upper leaves petal-like. Flowers with 3 styles, 3 or 6 stigmas. Fruits often 3-lobed capsule. | |
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| Flower Formula: Sepals 0 or 5; Petals 0 or 5 | Glossary |
| Genus (Click for Taxon List) |
WI Taxa (map link) |
Photo | Genus Traits | Google Searches |
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| Acalypha
copper-leaf |
2 |  |
Only has sepals. Main leaves with simple, unbranched hairs or smooth. | Images Information |
| Chamaesyce
sand-mat |
8 |  |
No petals or sepals. Milky juice. Leaves all opposite, oblique at base. Plants mostly sprawling. | Images Information |
| Croton
croton |
3 |  |
Has petals and sometimes sepals. Main leaves with branched hairs or scales. | Images Information |
| Euphorbia
spurge |
13 |  |
No petals or sepals. Milky juice. Leaves not all opposite; even at the base. Plants mostly erect | Images Information |