Taxon: Euphorbia dentata Michx.

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Michigan [s.w.], Ohio, Pennsylvania [s.w.], West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa [s.], Kansas [e.], Missouri, Nebraska [s.e.], Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia [n.w.], Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland [w.], Mississippi, North Carolina [w.], Tennessee, Virginia [w.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua [s.e.], Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas [n.]

• naturalized elsewhere in North & South America

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Diggs, G. M., Jr. et al. 1999. Shinner's and Mahler's illustrated flora of North Central Texas.
• Dressler, R. L. 1961. A synopsis of Poinsettia (Euphorbiaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 48:338. [= Poinsettia dentata (Michx.) Klotzsch & Garcke].
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois.
• Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• Mayfield, M. H. 1997. A systematic treatment of Euphorbia subgenus Poinsettia (Euphorbiaceae). Unpublished dissertation (University of Texas at Austin) 72–88.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Riina, R. & P. E. Berry, coord. Euphorbia Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (on-line resource).
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1979–. Flora fanerogámica del Valle de México.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Steinmann, V. W. & R. S. Felger. 1997. The Euphorbiaceae of Sonora, Mexico. Aliso 16:56. [formerly applied to a complex that may include 5 species].
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. [= Poinsettia dentata (Michx.) Klotzsch & Garcke].
• Yatskievych, G. & J. Turner. 1990. Catalogue of the flora of Missouri. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 37.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Poinsettia dentata (Michx.) Klotzsch & Garcke
  

Check other web resources for Euphorbia dentata Michx.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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