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|accepted_name=Caperonia palustris
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) A. St.-Hilaire
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Pl. Remarq. Brésil
|place=3/4: 245. 1825
|year=1825
}}
|common_names=Sacatrapo;Texasweed
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Croton palustris
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 1004. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Caperonia;Caperonia palustris
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Euphorbiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Caperonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Caperonia palustris]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 181
|treatment_page=page 180
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> 25–100 cm; indumentum of glandular and nonglandular hairs, glandular hairs coarse, erect, thick-based, and gland-tipped (especially abundant on stems and petioles). <b>Stems</b> erect, moderately to densely hairy, with gland-tipped hairs and finer, usually appressed, nonglandular hairs; older stems 4–7 mm diam. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 0.3–2.5(–3.5) cm; blade narrowly ovate, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 6–15 × (0.6–)1–6 cm (L/W = 2–7(–11)), base usually rounded or obtuse, rarely acute, apex acute or narrowly acute, surfaces glabrescent or sparsely, mostly appressed-hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2–14 cm, peduncle 1–7 cm, fertile portion 1–9 cm, with (1–)2–4 pistillate flowers. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: petals narrowly obovate, 1.4 mm, ± equal, not or somewhat exerted beyond calyx. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals ovate or elliptic, longest 2–3.2 mm, becoming 3.5–5.5 mm in fruit; petals 1–2(–2.4) mm; ovary densely covered in bulbous-based, gland-tipped trichomes. <b>Capsules</b> 5–7 mm wide, trichomes conic proximally, hairlike distally, gland-tipped. <b>Seeds</b> brown, 2.5–3 mm diam. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting Jul–Nov.
|habitat=Disturbed wet areas, ditches, swampy areas, rice fields.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;La.;Miss.;Tex.;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Caperonia palustris</i> is a major weed in rice fields in parts of the southern United States (R. K. Godara et al. 2011). Known in the flora area at least since the 1920s from Texas, this species was first collected in Arkansas in 1971 and Mississippi in 1982.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Caperonia palustris
|authority=(Linnaeus) A. St.-Hilaire
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Croton palustris
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting Jul–Nov.
|habitat=Disturbed wet areas, ditches, swampy areas, rice fields.
|elevation=0–100 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;La.;Miss.;Tex.;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Hist. Pl. Remarq. Brésil
|publication year=1825
|special status=Weedy;Introduced;Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_505.xml
|genus=Caperonia
|species=Caperonia palustris
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