Croton texensis(Klotzsch) Müll.Arg.

Texas croton

WFO wfo-0000932541 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Croton texensis, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. a Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-10-11 / obs. 173875178
Croton texensis, photographed by Jesse Rorabaugh
fig. b Jesse Rorabaugh, CC0 1.0 / obs. 144524839
Croton texensis, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. c Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141248966
Croton texensis, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. d Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141249273
Croton texensis, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. e Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 173874198
Croton texensis, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. f Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136423250
Croton texensis, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. g Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130677555
Croton texensis, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. h Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 97819169

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Croton texensis is native: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming AlabamaArizonaArkansasColoradoFloridaIllinoisIowaKansasMarylandMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMissouriNebraskaNew MexicoOklahomaSouth DakotaTexasUtahWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming Delaware
Native distribution of Croton texensis, 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
Colorado COL
Delaware DEL
Florida FLA
Illinois ILL
Iowa IOW
Kansas KAN
Maryland MRY
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Missouri MSO
Nebraska NEB
New Mexico NWM
Oklahoma OKL
South Dakota SDA
Texas TEX
Utah UTA
West Virginia WVA
Wisconsin WIS
Wyoming WYO

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 39 in flower of 55 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Croton texensis 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. 39 of 55 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 8 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.

  • Croton luteovirens Wooton & Standl.
  • Croton muricatus Nutt.
  • Croton texensis var. utahensis Cronquist
  • Croton virens Müll.Arg.
  • Hendecandra multiflora Torr.
  • Hendecandra texensis Klotzsch
  • Oxydectes texensis (Klotzsch) Kuntze
  • Oxydectes virens (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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.

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