Croton setiger

Doveweed, turkey-mullein, Turkey-Mullein

Family: Euphorbiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Doveweed is a California native annual found in the California Floristic Province and western deserts in dry, open, often disturbed areas at elevations below 1,000 meters. Flowering from May to October, this plant produces small greenish flowers in terminal and axillary clusters with male and female flowers on the same plant. Growing as a low, spreading mound-like plant up to 20 centimeters tall and 80 centimeters wide, it has ascending stems with a delicate, sprawling habit. Its leaves are ovate, 1 to 6 centimeters long with rounded tips, carried on slender petioles 1 to 5 centimeters in length. The fruit is approximately 4 millimeters in diameter, containing a single smooth or slightly ridged seed.

Habitat: Dry, open, often disturbed areas

Bloom period: May-Oct

Elevation: < 1000 m

Bioregions: CA-FP, w D

California counties: Mendocino, Nevada, Kern, Tuolumne, Colusa, Orange, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino, Inyo, Imperial, Tulare, Riverside, Merced, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Stanislaus, Placer, Trinity, Madera, El Dorado, Sacramento, Calaveras, Sutter, San Joaquin, Yuba, Amador, Butte, Glenn, Tehama, Modoc, San Mateo, Marin, Contra Costa, Yolo, Santa Clara, Fresno, Monterey, Plumas, Napa, Lassen, San Benito, Humboldt, Shasta, Lake, Siskiyou, Del Norte, Sonoma, Mariposa, Sierra, Solano, Santa Cruz, Alameda

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.