Croton monanthogynus

Usually grows on calcareous soils and only develops one seed per capsule.

Seeds average approximately 48,000/lb.

The following information is for the genus Croton with note that C. glandulosus, C. monanthogynus, C. capitatus and C. texensis are among the most important: Animals that eat its seeds: Ground dove, Mourning dove, Eastern white-winged dove, Attwater's's prairie chicken, Bobwhite quail, Chestnut-bellied scaled quail, Wild turkey, Redwing blackbird, Cardinal, Cowbird, American pipit, Sprague pipit, Pyrrhuloxia, Pine-woods sparrow, Prairie pocket mouse. Animals that eat the plant: White-tailed deer (Martin et al. 1951).

Abundant in calcareous soil in much of Louisiana and Texas. It ranges from the gulf states north to Maryland and west to Kansas, and Mexico (Correll and Johnston 1979). The leaves were used to make tea by early settlers.

Limestone or basic soils, calcerous soils of prairies, open woods, pastures, roadsides.