Acalypha persimilisMüll.Arg.

pineland threeseed mercury

WFO wfo-0000216374 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Acalypha persimilis, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. a Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-10 / obs. 162914636
Acalypha persimilis, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. b Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 161785978
Acalypha persimilis, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. c Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161650084
Acalypha persimilis, photographed by Clay
fig. d Clay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158664773
Acalypha persimilis, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. e Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168159603
Acalypha persimilis, photographed by Clay
fig. f Clay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155722130
Acalypha persimilis, photographed by Clay
fig. g Clay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155725013
Acalypha persimilis, photographed by Chris Hughes
fig. h Chris Hughes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147318247

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 42 botanical countries

Regions where Acalypha persimilis is native: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Puerto Rico AlabamaArizonaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestMississippiMissouriNebraskaNew MexicoNorth CarolinaOhioOklahomaSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexasVirginiaWest VirginiaBelizeCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPuerto Rico BahamasLeeward Is.
Native distribution of Acalypha persimilis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arizona ARI
Arkansas ARK
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Iowa IOW
Kansas KAN
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
Nebraska NEB
New Mexico NWM
North Carolina NCA
Ohio OHI
Oklahoma OKL
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG
West Virginia WVA
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Puerto Rico PUE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 66 in flower of 129 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Acalypha persimilis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 66 of 129 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acalypha caroliniana Elliott
  • Acalypha corchorifolia A.Rich.
  • Acalypha ostryifolia Riddell ex J.M.Coult.
  • Acalypha pedunculata Klotzsch ex Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Acalypha persimilis var. corchorifolia Müll.Arg.
  • Acalypha persimilis var. scabra Müll.Arg.
  • Acalypha polystachya Griseb.
  • Acalypha setosa Bello
  • Ricinocarpus carolinianus Kuntze
  • Ricinocarpus persimilis (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol ACOS. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.