Index / Search / Croton dioicus
§1 Plant
Croton dioicus Cav.
vernacular grassland croton — species · Euphorbiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Croton
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 63 counties across 2 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 63 counties across 2 states/territories.
New Mexico view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 54 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Coke 48081
- Crane 48103
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dickens 48125
- Duval 48131
- Ector 48135
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Hidalgo 48215
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Irion 48235
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Hogg 48247
- Kent 48263
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Live Oak 48297
- Loving 48301
- Lubbock 48303
- Martin 48317
- Mason 48319
- Maverick 48323
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Midland 48329
- Mitchell 48335
- Nolan 48353
- Nueces 48355
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Reagan 48383
- Reeves 48389
- Schleicher 48413
- Scurry 48415
- Starr 48427
- Sutton 48435
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Upton 48461
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
- Winkler 48495
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CRDI6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3058980 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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