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Acalypha phleoides
Acalypha phleoides is a small perennial herb or subshrub of the spurge family from the southwestern US, Mexico and Guatemala, grown mainly as a hardy, drought-tolerant border or native garden plant. It is a species, not a genus, and it tolerates dry conditions best when kept in well-drained soil.
Acalypha phleoides, the shrubby copperleaf, sometimes called Lindheimer's copperleaf or a name applied to all Acalypha species, three-seeded mercury, is a species of flowering plant. A native of the southwestern USA, Mexico and Guatemala, it belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae.
Acalypha phleoides mainly occurs in Mexico, though in the Southwestern United States it is found in the states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, plus at Mexico's southern border it extends into Guatemala.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acalypha phleoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
