Wedge spurge, endangered Florida native

Short matting plant with small green rounded leaves growing within the crevice of a rock.

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Lydia Cuni/Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden

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Wedge Spurge (Chamaesyce deltoidei ssp. serpyllum) is a wiry-stemmed, matting, perennial herb with tiny triangular to oval leaves. The plant produces three-seeded fruits and exists nowhere but the pine rocklands and roadsides on Big Pine Key in Monroe County, Florida.

Facility

Florida Ecological Services Office

Ecosystem

Coastal

Staff

David Bender

Subject tags

Endangered and/or Threatened species

Flowering plants

Habitat conservation

Wildflowers

Wildlife

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