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|accepted_name=Croton argyranthemus
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=2: 215. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Healing or silver croton
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Croton;Croton argyranthemus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Euphorbiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Croton]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Croton argyranthemus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 206, 207, 214
|treatment_page=page 211
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or subshrubs, annual or short-lived perennial, 1–6 dm, monoecious. <b>Stems</b> several from base, branching distally into 2–4 branches, lepidote. <b>Leaves</b> not clustered; stipules subulate, 0.2 mm; petiole 0.2–1(–2) cm, glands absent at apex; blade on proximal parts of stems oval to narrowly obovate, on distal parts oblong to lanceolate-oblong or broadly elliptic, 1–5 × 0.5–2(–3) cm, base rounded to narrowed, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded, abaxial surface silvery, densely lepidote, adaxial surface darker green, sparsely lepidote or glabrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> bisexual, racemes, 2–5 cm, staminate flowers 15–35, pistillate flowers 2–8. <b>Pedicels</b>: staminate 1–5 mm, pistillate 0–2 mm. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 5, 5 mm, abaxial surface lepidote; petals 5, oblong-spatulate, 5 mm, abaxial surface densely lepidote, scales translucent, petals appearing hyaline; stamens 10–15. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 5–7, connate for 1/2+ length, equal, 3–4 mm, margins entire, apex incurved, abaxial surface lepidote; petals 0; ovary 3-locular; styles 3, 2–4 mm, 1–3 times 2-fid at apex, terminal segments 6–24. <b>Capsules</b> 5–6 × 3–4 mm, smooth; columella 3-angled. <b>Seeds</b> 4–5 × 2.5–3 mm, dull.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Sep.
|habitat=Deep sandy soils in pinelands, pine-oak scrub, sandhills.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Tex.;Mexico (Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p><i>Croton argyranthemus</i> is closely related to <i>C. coryi</i>. Although they have very different kinds of vegetative indumentum, the staminate petals are characteristically silvery-lepidote in both species.</p>
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name=Croton argyranthemus
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Sep.
|habitat=Deep sandy soils in pinelands, pine-oak scrub, sandhills.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;Tex.;Mexico (Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_1079.xml
|genus=Croton
|species=Croton argyranthemus
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