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Lythraceae
Cuphea

not marked as a favorite taxon *Cuphea procumbens Ortega. Common name: Firefly Cuphea. Habitat: Gardens, used in horticultural and persistent or weakly escaped. Distribution: Native of Mexico. Reported for NC by Small (1933). Graham (1975) considers this Mexican species to be represented in se. United States only by "garden escapes that do not persist".

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Origin/Endemic status: Neotropics

Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA10, K4, NE, Graham (1975); = n/a — RAB; = Parsonsia procumbens (Gómez Ortega) A.Heller — S, S13. Basionym: Cuphea procumbens Ortega 1797

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