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§1 Plant

Croton setigerus Hook.

vernacular dove weed — species · Euphorbiaceae


USDA
CRSE11
GBIF
3058111
Rank
species
dove weed (Croton setigerus)
Platephotograph · sea-kangarooCC BY-NC-ND source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Euphorbiaceae Juss.
Genus
Croton
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 79 counties across 7 states/territories
Legend Native · 79 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 79 counties across 7 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 1 N
California view state ↗ 49 N
Idaho view state ↗ 7 N
Nevada view state ↗ 5 N
Oregon view state ↗ 14 N
Utah view state ↗ 1 N
Washington view state ↗ 2 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CRSE11 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3058111 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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