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Slender threeseed mercury

Acalypha gracilens

Also called Shortstalk Copperleaf, Slender Copperleaf, Three-seeded Mercury, Slender three-seeded mercury, Slender three-seeded copperleaf, Short Stalked Copperleaf

Slender threeseed mercury
Photo: James H. Miller & Ted Bodner, Southern Weed Science Society, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0
Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
C. & E. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Acalypha gracilens is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. Common names include slender threeseed mercury; three-seeded mercury; shortstalk copperleaf; slender copperleaf. It is native to the south-eastern United States.

Where it grows

A. gracilens is found throughout the south-eastern U.S. coastal plain and piedmont, eastern Midwest, and New England.

Other Acalypha plants

Asian copperleaf · Acalypha bipartita · California copperleaf · Bastard Copperleaf · Acalypha ciliata · Acalypha cupricola · Acalypha dictyoneura · Acalypha dikuluwensis · Acalypha ecuadorica · Acalypha eggersii · Native Acalypha · Golden falsenettle

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acalypha gracilens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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