Index / Search / Croton michauxii var. ellipticus

§1 Plant

Croton michauxii G.L. Webster var. ellipticus (Willd.) B.W. van Ee & P.E. Berry

vernacular Michaux's croton — variety · Euphorbiaceae


USDA
CRMIE
GBIF
5833348
Rank
variety
Michaux's croton (Croton michauxii var. ellipticus)
Platephotograph · Siddarth MachadoCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Euphorbiaceae Juss.
Genus
Croton
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 209 counties across 14 states/territories
Legend Native · 209 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 209 counties across 14 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 17 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 49 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 3 N
Georgia view state ↗ 40 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 16 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 32 N
Maryland view state ↗ 3 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 16 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N
Virginia view state ↗ 12 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CRMIE ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5833348 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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