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§1 Plant
Croton punctatus Jacq.
vernacular gulf 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
· 60 counties across 8 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 60 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Collier 12021
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gulf 12045
- Indian River 12061
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Manatee 12081
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pinellas 12103
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Volusia 12127
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CRPU6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3057499 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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