Croton monanthogynusMichx.

Prairie Tea

WFO wfo-0000931736 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Croton monanthogynus, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. a saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204751398
Croton monanthogynus, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. b Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167056076
Croton monanthogynus, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. c Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165289949
Croton monanthogynus, photographed by Rich Sommer
fig. d Rich Sommer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165686700
Croton monanthogynus, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. e Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168174802
Croton monanthogynus, photographed by Nathan May
fig. f Nathan May, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164270792
Croton monanthogynus, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. g Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161424703
Croton monanthogynus, photographed by Clay
fig. h Clay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157463095

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Flowering n = 224 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 224 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 9 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.

  • Argythamnia herbacea Spreng.
  • Croton ellipticus Nutt.
  • Croton maritimus var. monanthogynus (Michx.) Pursh
  • Croton tomentosus Shecut
  • Engelmannia nuttalliana Klotzsch
  • Gynamblosis monanthogyna (Michx.) Torr.
  • Heptallon ellipticum Raf.
  • Leptemon ellipticum (Willd.) Raf.
  • Oxydectes monanthogyna (Michx.) 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.

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