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|accepted_name=Euphorbia graminea
|accepted_authority=Jacquin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist.,
|place=151. 1763
|year=1763
}}
|common_names=Grassleaf spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
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|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Alectoroctonum;Euphorbia graminea
|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. Alectoroctonum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Euphorbia graminea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 238, 240, 241
|treatment_page=page 246
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> usually annual, rarely perennial, with slender, rarely tuberous, taproot. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, branched, 30–80(–110) cm, strigillose or glabrescent, sharply angled. <b>Leaves</b> usually alternate, sometimes some opposite; stipules usually 0.2–0.5 mm, rarely rudimentary; petiole 0.4–5.9 mm, strigillose; blade ovate, elliptic, linear-elliptic, or oblong, 10–83 × 3–39 mm, base attenuate, rounded, or cuneate, margins entire, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces strigillose; venation occasionally obscure on narrow leaves, midvein conspicuous. <b>Cyathia</b> in usually terminal, rarely axillary, dichasia, distal dichasial bracts often white; peduncle 0.4–4.5 mm (to 15 mm at first node of inflorescence), glabrous. <b>Involucre</b> campanulate or obconic, 1–1.8 × 0.8–1.7 mm, glabrous or strigillose toward rim; glands (1–)2–4, yellow to greenish, elliptic or oblong, 0.1–0.3 × 0.2–0.4 mm; appendages white to tinged purple, ovate and often hoodlike or forming narrow rim around distal margin of gland, 0.3–1.6 × 0.4–0.9 mm, entire. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 30–40. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary glabrous; styles 0.7–1 mm, 2-fid from 1/2 to nearly entire length. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid-oblate, 2.5–3 × 3–3.5 mm, glabrous; columella 1.6–1.9 mm. <b>Seeds</b> gray, brown, or nearly black, ovoid, circular or weakly angled in cross section, 1.5–1.7 × 1.3–1.5 mm, coarsely tuberculate with longitudinal rows of shallow pits; caruncle absent or punctiform, 0.1–0.2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed, weedy, or urban areas.
|elevation=0–500 m.
|distribution=Ark.;Calif.;Fla.;La.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America;introduced also in West Indies;Asia;Pacific Islands.
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia graminea</i> occurs natively from northern South America to northern Mexico. The species is a variable and taxonomically complex entity whose boundaries are not well defined and are in need of further study. <i>Euphorbia graminea</i> is often weedy and has recently become established in warmer areas of the southern United States, where it will likely become more common in the future. In recent years, a cultivar of <i>E. graminea</i> has found considerable horticultural success and is marketed under the trade name "Diamond Frost."</p>
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name=Euphorbia graminea
|author=
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting year-round.
|habitat=Disturbed, weedy, or urban areas.
|elevation=0–500 m.
|distribution=Ark.;Calif.;Fla.;La.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;South America;introduced also in West Indies;Asia;Pacific Islands.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist.,
|publication year=1763
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Alectoroctonum
|species=Euphorbia graminea
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