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|accepted_name=Euphorbia vermiculata
|accepted_authority=Rafinesque
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev.
|place=2: 206. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Wormseed spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chamaesyce rothrockii
|authority=Millspaugh
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=C. vermiculata
|authority=(Rafinesque) House
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Euphorbia rothrockii
|authority=(Millspaugh) Oudejans
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Anisophyllum;Euphorbia vermiculata
|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. Anisophyllum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Euphorbia vermiculata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 256, 293
|treatment_page=page 292
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or short-lived perennial, with slender, fibrous taproot. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to ascending or erect, not mat forming, 10–35 cm, usually sparsely to moderately strigillose, pilose, or villous, rarely glabrate hairs sometimes in longitudinal lines. <b>Leaves</b> opposite; stipules distinct or connate, triangular to narrowly triangular or laciniate into subulate to filiform divisions, 0.6–1.3 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose; petiole 0.2–0.9 mm, glabrous, villous, or strigillose; blade ovate, oblong, or elliptic, often falcate, 5–18 × 3–9 mm, base asymmetric, one side rounded and other cordate, margins usually serrulate especially in distal 1/2, rarely nearly entire, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces not papillate, sparsely pilose, villous, or sericeous (especially near base), often glabrate (especially older leaves); 3–5-veined from base. <b>Cyathia</b> solitary at distal nodes or in small, cymose clusters at branch tips; peduncle 0.2–2.5 mm. <b>Involucre</b> obconic, 0.7–1.1 × 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous; glands (2–3)–4, red to reddish green, circular to oblong, 0.1 × 0.1–0.2 mm; appendages absent or white, turning pink with age, flabellate, oblong, circular, or forming narrow lunate border around margin of gland, 0.1–0.3 × 0.2–0.4 mm, distal margin entire or slightly lobed. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 5–15. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary glabrous; styles 0.3–0.5 mm, 2-fid 1/2 length. <b>Capsules</b> oblate to subglobose, cocci not elongated nor terminating in empty portion, 1.4–1.8 × 1.7–2.1 mm, glabrous; columella 1.1–1.5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> brown, gray, or almost black, ovoid to oblong, 3–4-angled in cross section, 1.1–1.4 × 0.7–0.8 mm, rugulose and sometimes also with low transverse ridges that do not interrupt abaxial keel.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring–fall.
|habitat=Juniper-oak woodlands, temperate deciduous forests, grasslands, pine forests, oak forests with sycamores, walnuts and alders, often in disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–2600 m.
|distribution=Juniper-oak woodlands;temperate deciduous forests;grasslands;pine forests;oak forests with sycamores;walnuts and alders;often in disturbed areas;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ariz.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Euphorbia vermiculata has an interesting disjunct distribution; it ranges from central Mexico to Arizona and New Mexico, and is also present in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.</p>
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name=Euphorbia vermiculata
|author=
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Chamaesyce rothrockii;C. vermiculata;Euphorbia rothrockii
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring–fall.
|habitat=Juniper-oak woodlands, temperate deciduous forests, grasslands, pine forests, oak forests with sycamores, walnuts and alders, often in disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–2600 m.
|distribution=Juniper-oak woodlands;temperate deciduous forests;grasslands;pine forests;oak forests with sycamores;walnuts and alders;often in disturbed areas;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ariz.;Conn.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev.
|publication year=1818
|special status=Weedy
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_55.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Anisophyllum
|species=Euphorbia vermiculata
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