Common name: Woolly Croton
Croton capitatus Michx. APNI* 
Description: Shrub or woody herb to 1 m high, woolly-white owing to dense covering of stellate hairs.
Upper leaves oblong, lower leaves ovate, mostly 3–8 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, margins entire to toothed; both surfaces woolly-white, densely covered with stellate hairs; petiole 10–30 mm long, glands absent.
Male flowers with sepals and petals c. 1 mm long. Female flowers without petals; calyx deeply 6–9-lobed, lobes 2–3 mm long, enlarging to c. 9 mm in fruit.
Capsule c. 9 mm long, surrounded by persistent calyx.
Distribution and occurrence: Weed of cultivation. Native of N Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *CWS
Text by T. A. James & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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