General Plant Information (Edit)
| Plant Habit: |
Herb/Forb
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| Life cycle: |
Annual
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| Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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| Water Preferences: |
Mesic
Dry Mesic
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| Plant Height: |
8 to 24 inches |
| Flowers: |
Inconspicuous
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| Flower Color: |
Other: Copper-colored bracts
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| Bloom Size: |
Under 1"
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| Flower Time: |
Summer
Fall
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| Underground structures: |
Taproot
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| Uses: |
Groundcover
Will Naturalize
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| Wildlife Attractant: |
Birds
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| Resistances: |
Drought tolerant
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- Common Threeseed Mercury
- Rhombic Three-Seeded Mercury
- Rhomboid Copperleaf
- Rhomboid Mercury
- Virginia Threeseed Mercury
- Accepted: Acalypha rhomboidea
- Synonym: Acalypha virginica var. rhomboidea
Posted by
ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Mar 4, 2018 6:14 PM concerning plant:
This member of the Spurge Family (Euphorbiaceae) is actually a woodland annual forb native from Iowa to Massachusetts and then southward into the South US. It bears tiny petal-less flowers that are green from late summer into autumn. It is a very common plant in shady locations and it is often considered a weed and is pulled out of the ground in many gardens and landscapes, and I have done that a lot in the past. My Field Guide to Wildflowers by Peterson & McKenny calls it Three-seeded Mercury as Acalypha virginiana.
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