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|accepted_name=Euphorbia curtisii
|accepted_authority=Engelmann ex Chapman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|place=401. 1860
|year=1860
}}
|common_names=Curtis’s or sandhills spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Euphorbia eriogonoides
|authority=Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tithymalopsis curtisii
|authority=(Engelmann ex Chapman) Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=T. eriogonoides
|authority=(Small) Small
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia sect. Alectoroctonum;Euphorbia curtisii
|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 curtisii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 240, 242, 246
|treatment_page=page 245
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, with spreading rootstock. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, branched, solitary or few, previous year's dead stems not persistent, 20–40 cm, usually glabrous, rarely strigose to sericeous at nodes. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; stipules to 0.1 mm; petiole to (0–)1–2 mm, glabrous or strigose to sericeous; blade usually linear, occasionally elliptic, rarely ovate, proximal often greatly reduced and often scalelike, 10–30 × 1.5–6 mm, base cuneate, margins entire, occasionally sparsely ciliate, apex rounded or broadly acute, abaxial surface glabrous or sparsely strigose to sericeous, adaxial surface glabrous; venation obscure, only midvein conspicuous. <b>Cyathia</b> in terminal pleiochasia (fertile axillary branches occasionally present); peduncle 6.5–17 mm, filiform, glabrous. <b>Involucre</b> campanulate, 1–1.2 × 1.3–1.5(–1.7) mm, glabrous or strigose to sericeous on distal 1/2; glands 5, green, reniform, 0.3 × 0.6 mm; appendages white, semicircular, 0.3–0.4 × 0.6–0.8 mm, entire. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 20–25. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary glabrous or sparsely strigose to sericeous; styles 0.6–1.1 mm, 2-fid at apex to 1/2 length. <b>Capsules</b> globose, 2.5–3.2 × 4.3–5.1 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose to sericeous; columella 2.4–3.1 mm. <b>Seeds</b> usually gray to black, occasionally brown, ovoid-globose, 2.2 × 1.8 mm, smooth; caruncle absent.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting early spring–summer.
|habitat=Xeric to dry oak or oak-pine scrub of sand hills, pine-oak woodlands, pine-oak savannas.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia curtisii</i> is found in the Gulf and Atlantic coastal plains.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Euphorbia curtisii
|author=
|authority=Engelmann ex Chapman
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Euphorbia eriogonoides;Tithymalopsis curtisii;T. eriogonoides
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting early spring–summer.
|habitat=Xeric to dry oak or oak-pine scrub of sand hills, pine-oak woodlands, pine-oak savannas.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;N.C.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. South. U.S.,
|publication year=1860
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_1040.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|section=Euphorbia sect. Alectoroctonum
|species=Euphorbia curtisii
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