Flora Pittsburghensis

Three-Seeded Mercury (Acalypha rhomboidea)

Acalypha rhomboidea

In the fall this unassuming little weed can take on some surprisingly beautiful and varied autumn colors in the bronze range. This little patch grew out of a crack in a concrete driveway in Beechview, where it was beginning to show off its autumn colors (and its triple seeds) in late September. It grows everywhere in the city, although normally we don’t notice it much.


Family Euphorbiaceae (Spurge Family).   |   Index of Families.