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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Croton monanthogynus
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=2: 215. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=One-seed croton;prairie tea
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Engelmannia nuttalliana
|authority=Klotzsch
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gynamblosis monanthogyna
|authority=(Michaux) Torrey
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Heptallon ellipticum
|authority=Rafinesque
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxydectes monanthogyna
|authority=(Michaux) Kuntze
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Croton;Croton monanthogynus
|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 monanthogynus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 208, 221
|treatment_page=page 220
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, 2–5 dm, monoecious. <b>Stems</b> dichotomously branched from near base, stellate-hairy, some stellate hairs with dark brown centers. <b>Leaves</b> sometimes clustered near inflorescences; stipules glandlike, 0.1–0.3 mm; petiole 0.3–1.5 cm, glands absent at apex; blade ovate-oblong to nearly round (proximal) to narrowly elliptic (distal), 1–3.5 × 0.5–3 cm, base obtuse to rounded or truncate, margins entire, apex rounded to acute, abaxial surface pale green, sparsely whitish stellate-hairy and appearing brown-dotted, some hairs with dark brown centers, adaxial surface darker green, densely stellate-hairy, hairs without brown centers. <b>Inflorescences</b> bisexual or sometimes pistillate, congested racemes, 0.3–1 cm, staminate flowers 3–10, pistillate flowers 1–2(–5). <b>Pedicels</b>: staminate 0.5–2 mm, pistillate 1–2.5 mm (2–3 mm and recurved in fruit). <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 3–5, 0.7–1 mm, abaxial surface stellate-hairy; petals 3–5, narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, 0.7–1 mm, abaxial surface glabrous except margins villous; stamens 3–5. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 5, subequal, 1.5–2 mm, margins entire, apex straight to slightly incurved, abaxial surface stellate-hairy, some hairs with dark brown centers; petals 0; ovary 2-locular, 1 fertile; styles 2, 0.8–1.2(–1.5) mm, 2-fid to base, terminal segments 4. <b>Capsules</b> appearing follicular (1-seeded), 3.5–4.5 × 1.8–2.2 mm, smooth; columella ± curved, apparently deciduous upon dehiscence of capsule. <b>Seeds</b> 2.5–3.3 × 2–2.5 mm, shiny. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Prairies, sandstone and limestone glades, thinly wooded bluffs, fallow fields, other disturbed habitats.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ariz.;Ark.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p><i>Croton monanthogynus</i> may be adventive in the northernmost states.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Croton monanthogynus
|author=
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Engelmannia nuttalliana;Gynamblosis monanthogyna;Heptallon ellipticum;Oxydectes monanthogyna
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Prairies, sandstone and limestone glades, thinly wooded bluffs, fallow fields, other disturbed habitats.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ariz.;Ark.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;San Luis Potosí;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1803
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_522.xml
|genus=Croton
|species=Croton monanthogynus
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