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|accepted_name=Euphorbia innocua
|accepted_authority=L. C. Wheeler
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. Gray Herb.
|place=127: 62, plate 3, fig. D. 1939
|year=1939
}}
|common_names=Velvet spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Alectoroctonum;Euphorbia innocua
|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 innocua]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 241
|treatment_page=page 247
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, with moderately to strongly thickened rootstock. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to decumbent or ascending, branched (often near base), 7–45 cm, densely pilose. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; stipules to 0.1 mm; petiole (0.7–)1.1–3.5 mm, pilose; blade ovate to orbiculate, 4.6–17(–25) × 4.5–15(–19) mm, base cordate, margins entire, apex rounded to obtuse, surfaces densely pilose; venation obscure, usually only midvein conspicuous. <b>Cyathia</b> in terminal dichasia (often weakly defined); peduncle 1–2.7 mm, densely pilose. <b>Involucre</b> campanulate, 1–1.3 × 1.2–1.4 mm, pilose; glands 4, yellow to green, elliptic, 0.2–0.3 × 0.5–0.6 mm; appendages green, elliptic, 0.4–0.5 × 0.5–0.9 mm, entire or crenulate, ciliate. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 5–10. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary pilose; styles 0.4–0.7 mm, 2-fid 1/2 length. <b>Capsules</b> depressed-ovoid, 2–2.5 × 2.7–3.3 mm, pilose; columella 1.6–2.1 mm. <b>Seeds</b> gray to brown, ovoid, 1.5–1.7 × 1.2–1.3 mm, rugose with whitish ridges; caruncle absent.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting early winter–late spring.
|habitat=Sandy soils or dunes, grasslands, pastures.
|elevation=0–20 m.
|distribution=Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia innocua</i> is restricted to south coastal Texas in Aransas, Calhoun, Kenedy, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, and Willacy counties.</p>
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name=Euphorbia innocua
|authority=L. C. Wheeler
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting early winter–late spring.
|habitat=Sandy soils or dunes, grasslands, pastures.
|elevation=0–20 m.
|distribution=Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. Gray Herb.
|publication year=1939
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_575.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Alectoroctonum
|species=Euphorbia innocua
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