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|accepted_name=Euphorbia cyathophora
|accepted_authority=Murray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Commentat. Soc. Regiae Sci. Gott.
|place=7: 81, plate 1. 1786
|year=1786
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|common_names=Fire on the mountain;painted leaf
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Poinsettia cyathophora
|authority=(Murray) Bartling
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Poinsettia;Euphorbia cyathophora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Euphorbiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Euphorbia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Euphorbia sect. Poinsettia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Euphorbia cyathophora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 317, 318, 320, 323
|treatment_page=page 319
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, with spreading taproots. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, 20–100 cm, glabrous, sparsely pilose, or puberulent; branches ± straight. <b>Leaves</b> usually alternate, occasionally opposite proximally; petiole 2–20 mm, glabrous or pilose, or often hispid abaxially near blade junction; blade linear, lanceolate, elliptic, or wider leaves pandurate and unequally 4-lobed, occasionally polymorphic on single plants, 15–250 × 4–40 mm, base acute to cuneate, margins subulately glandular-serrulate distally, or sparsely glandular and subentire, hirtellous to glabrate, flat to revolute, apex acute to cuneate, abaxial surface sparsely pilose or glabrate, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely puberulent; venation pinnate, midvein prominent. <b>Cyathial</b> arrangement: terminal pleiochasial branches (1–)3, 1–2-branched; pleiochasial bracts 2–3(–4), often as tight, involucrate whorl, usually green with white, pink, or red at base, occasionally distal bracts wholly white, pink, or red, rarely all bracts wholly green, similar in shape and size to distal leaves; dichasial bracts often colored, similar in shape and size to distal stem leaves or highly reduced. <b>Cyathia</b>: peduncle 1.6–2.8 mm. <b>Involucre</b> campanulate, occasionally broadly so, 1.8–2.8 × 2.2–2.8 mm, glabrous; involucral lobes triangularly 3–5 lobed; gland 1, yellow-green, sessile to substipitate and narrowly to broadly attached, 1–1.4 × 0.9–1.6 mm, opening oblong (flattened without pressing), without annular rim, glabrous; appendages absent. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 7–20. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary glabrous; styles 1.6 mm, 2-fid nearly entire length. <b>Capsules</b> green, depressed-globose to ellipsoid, 2.8–3.2 × 4–4.5 mm, 3-lobed, glabrous; columella 2–2.7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> black to ashy gray or light brown, cylindric to ovoid, rounded in cross section, 2.3–3.1 × 1.9–2.5 mm, uniformly tuberculate or tubercles arranged in median, transverse ridge in cylindric seeds; caruncle absent. <b>2n</b> = 28, 56.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Bottomland forests, stream and river banks, bases of bluffs, fallow fields, roadsides, open disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–1800 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Utah;Va.;Wis.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Eurasia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia cyathophora</i> is native to the midwestern and southeastern United States, Mexico, the West Indies, and northern South America. Leaf shape can be polymorphic on individuals of this species, but not to the extent as in <i>E. heterophylla</i>.</p>
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name=Euphorbia cyathophora
|authority=Murray
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Poinsettia cyathophora
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting late spring–fall.
|habitat=Bottomland forests, stream and river banks, bases of bluffs, fallow fields, roadsides, open disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–1800 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Utah;Va.;Wis.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced in Eurasia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Commentat. Soc. Regiae Sci. Gott.
|publication year=1786
|special status=Weedy
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|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Poinsettia
|species=Euphorbia cyathophora
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