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Descriptive Flora 



stigma and sessible in a rounded leaf like bract similar to the 

 leaves. Spring to late fall. Widespread but not common. 

 Pistillate and staminate blossoms are on separate plants. 



Acalypha UncUheimeri Muell. Arg. Cardinal Feather. 



Plants 1 to 2' tall, with thin, broadly lanceolate or ovate, 

 toothed leaves, the many ascending, frequently reddish branches 

 ending in fringy, red spikes, 1 to 2" long. Leaves simple, alter- 

 nate. Blades ovate, 3-nerved at base, 1 to 2" long. Flowers red, 

 on fringed spikes, 1 to 4" long. Sepals and petals none. Pistillate 

 part of the flower in the lower part of the spikes, easily dis- 

 tinguished by the toothed leafy bracts which inclose the 3-lobed 

 seed eases that bear a tuft of branched red hairs at the tip until 

 they are fully matured. April to late summer. In limestone soil. 



Tragia nepetaefolia Cav. Stinging Nettle. 



Erect or reclining plants with stems 8 to 14 inches long, 

 covered with stinging hairs and bearing conspicuous, deeply 3- 

 lobed, bristly-hairy pods crowned by a 3-lobed stigma and con- 

 taining 3 globular, brown seeds. Leaves simple, alternate. 

 Blades usually lanceolate (sometimes triangular-ovate), % to 2" 

 long, with flaring toothed margins and covered with stinging 

 hairs. Lower leaves often rounded. Flowers inconspicuous, on 

 racemes ^2 to l 1 /^" long, branching out of the stem opposite the 

 leaves. Staminate flowers consist of 3 sepals and 3 stamens. 

 Pistillate have 5 sepals and a 3-lobed stigma. Widespread, as 

 common in neglected cultivated fields as on dry rocky hillsides. 

 March to late summer. 



Tragia macmcarpa Willd. Nettle-vine. 



A nettle with few slender, twining stems. Leaves simple, 

 alternate. Blades ovate to broadly lanceolate, 1 to 3" long, heart- 

 shaped at base, very coarsely toothed, covered with stinging 

 hairs. Petioles nearly as long or longer than the blades. Flowers 

 inconspicuous, greenish, in very small axillary spikes. Staminate 

 flowers consist of 3 sepals and 3 stamens. Pistillate flowers are 



