Spotted Spurge

(Chamaesyce maculata)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habit: Prostrate or decumbent highly branched annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot, occasional adventitious roots from trailing stem

Leaf anatomy: Oppositely arranged, simple, oblong-ovate/ovate-elliptic/linear-oblong shape, minutely serrated edges

Reproduction: Solitary cyathium inflorescences at nodes but appearing clustered, male and female flowers separate

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}