USDA and NRCS Identifier NRCS Logo
USDA.gov Web Site PLANTS photo banner
PLANTS Home about PLANTS PLANTS Team Partners of PLANTS What's New at PLANTS National Plant Data Center Web Site Help using PLANTS Contact PLANTS
 
 Search the PLANTS Web site
 Name Search

PLANTS Topics
 
 
PLANTS Image Gallery
 
 
Download PLANTS data
 
 
Related tools
 
 
 
You are here: Home / PLANTS Profile Printer-Friendly Printer-Friendly
PLANTS Profile
Alaska California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Hawaii Idaho Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Montana Nevada New Hampshire New York North Dakota Oregon Rhode Island South Dakota Utah Vermont Washington Wisconsin Wyoming Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Labrador Newfoundland Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon Northwest Territories Nunavut Greenland Saint Pierre and Miquelon

 

Acalypha ostryifolia Riddell
pineland threeseed mercury

       
Symbol:    
Group:    
Family:    
Duration:    
Growth Habit:    
Native Status:  
  
  
  



Click on the image below to enlarge it and download a high-resolution TIFF file.
Line Drawing of Acalypha ostryifolia Riddell
Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 457. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.
 
More Information:
 

Images:
Acalypha ostryifolia Riddell

See all the Acalypha thumbnails at the PLANTS Gallery
 

Synonyms:
Acalypha ostryifolia Riddell

  ACCA8 Acalypha caroliniana Elliot
 

Distribution:
Acalypha ostryifolia Riddell

View Native Status
Distribution Map Legend

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:

USA (AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV), USA+ (PR, VI)
 

Related Taxa:
Acalypha ostryifolia Riddell

View 60 genera in Euphorbiaceae, 23 species in Acalypha
 

Classification:
Acalypha ostryifolia Riddell

Click on a scientific name below to expand it in the PLANTS Classification Report.
   
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass Rosidae
Order Euphorbiales
Family Euphorbiaceae – Spurge family
Genus Acalypha L. – copperleaf
Species Acalypha ostryifolia Riddell – pineland threeseed mercury
 

U.S. Weed Information:
Acalypha ostryifolia Riddell

hophornbeam copperleaf
pineland threeseed mercury

This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.

KY        Haragan, P.D. 1991. Weeds of Kentucky and adjacent states: a field guide. The University Press of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky. 278pp.
SWSS        Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
 

More Accounts and Images:
Acalypha ostryifolia Riddell

View species account and distribution from USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 28189.

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

 
 
Time Generated: 10/09/2008 12:50 AM MDT