| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phyllanthaceae | Bischofia | Bishopwood |  (c) Horn, Jay | ||
| Phyllanthaceae | Bischofia javanica | Javanese Bishopwood | Hammocks, marl prairies, Florida scrub, shell mounds, floodplain forests, pine rocklands, coastal strands, and disturbed uplands. | Native of e. and se. Asia. The report from South Carolina (Kartesz 2020) is an unlikely waif. | (c) Horn, Jay |
| Phyllanthaceae | Breynia |  (c) Groom, Quentin - CC0 | |||
| Phyllanthaceae | Breynia disticha | Snowbush | Disturbed areas. | Native of Pacific Islands. | (c) Groom, Quentin - CC0 |
| Phyllanthaceae | Cicca |  (c) Hernández, Alexis López - CC-BY | |||
| Phyllanthaceae | Cicca acida | Tahitian Gooseberry-tree, Otaheite | Disturbed areas, from horticultural use. | Native of South America (Brazil). | (c) Hernández, Alexis López - CC-BY |
| Phyllanthaceae | Emblica |  (c) Campos, Aidan | |||
| Phyllanthaceae | Emblica urinaria | Chamber Bitter, Gripeweed | Gardens, roadsides, and other disturbed ground, apparently preferring nitrogen-rich or fertilized soils. | Native of tropical South and Southeast Asia, now widespread in the tropics and subtropics of both hemispheres. This species appeared in the 1940s to 1960s in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and North Carolina, and in the 1970s in Tennessee (Kral 1981). Reported for Missouri by Freeman & Morse (2019). | (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Phyllanthaceae | Flueggea |  (c) Hankey, Andrew - CC-BY-SA | |||
| Phyllanthaceae | Flueggea virosa ssp. virosa | Common Bushweed, Simple Bushweed, Chinese Waterberry | Disturbed pine rocklands. | Native of the Paleotropics. | (c) Hankey, Andrew - CC-BY-SA |
| Phyllanthaceae | Glochidion | Needlebush, Cheesetree |  (c) Trekker, Agnes - CC0 | ||
| Phyllanthaceae | Glochidion puber | Disturbed areas. | Native of China, Japan, and Taiwan. Fearn & Urbatsch (2001) discuss in detail its naturalization in s. Alabama (Mobile County), where it has now been found spreading at several locations (H. Horne, pers. comm., 2014). | (c) Trekker, Agnes - CC0 | |
| Phyllanthaceae | Heterosavia |  (c) Stauffer, Jeff - C, permission granted to NCBG | |||
| Phyllanthaceae | Heterosavia bahamensis | Bahama Maidenbush | Rockland hammocks. | S. Florida (keys of Monroe County); West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Swan Islands of Honduras). | (c) Stauffer, Jeff - C, permission granted to NCBG |
| Phyllanthaceae | Moeroris |  (c) Campos, Aidan | |||
| Phyllanthaceae | Moeroris abnormis ssp. abnormis | Drummond’s Leaf-flower | Prairies, barrens, dunes. | Oklahoma and se. New Mexico south to s. Texas and Tamaulipas. |  (c) Brice, Ali and - CC-BY-NC |
| Phyllanthaceae | Moeroris abnormis ssp. garberi | Florida Leaf-flower | Ocean dunes, other open, dry, sandy areas. | Ne. Florida and se. Georgia (Camden County) south to s. peninsular Florida. |  (c) Montes de Oca, Joseph - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Phyllanthaceae | Moeroris abnormis ssp. riograndensis | Thornscrub. | S. Texas (to be expected in ne. Mexico, but apparently not documented for there). | ||
| Phyllanthaceae | Moeroris amara | Gale-of-wind, Carry-me-seed | Disturbed roadsides. | Native of s. Asia. Also reported for North Carolina and South Carolina (Radford, Ahles, & Bell 1968) and for Alabama and Mississippi (Kartesz 2010, 2020); it appears that these reports represent misidentified material and are actually Moeroris tenella (Webster 1970). |  (c) Faccenda, Kevin - CC-BY |
| Phyllanthaceae | Moeroris arenaria | Sand Reverchonia | In deep sands. | S. Kansas, s. Colorado, and s. Utah south to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and ne. Mexico (Chihuahua). | |
| Phyllanthaceae | Moeroris debilis | Pine flatwoods and disturbed areas; apparently alien in North America. | Native of s. Asia. See Levin, Wilder, & McCollum (2018) for detailed discussion of this species' occurrence in North America. |  (c) Faccenda, Kevin - CC-BY | |
| Phyllanthaceae | Moeroris fraterna | Disturbed areas. | Native of India and Pakistan. Introduced in South Carolina (Kartesz 1999, 2010). S. Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana. Reported for Georgia (Zomlefer et al. 2018). |  (c) Horne, Howard - CC-BY-NC | |
| Phyllanthaceae | Moeroris pentaphylla | Fivepetal Leaf-flower | Pine rocklands, marl prairies, disturbed areas. | S. Florida; West Indies, Venezuela. The record from Darlington County, South Carolina is unlikely to be correctly labeled (as also indicated by RAB) and is here excluded. | (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Phyllanthaceae | Moeroris tenella | Mascarene Island Leaf-flower | Disturbed areas, mulched beds, gardens. | Native of the Mascarene Islands. This species appeared in Florida in the 1920s, s. Georgia in the 1940s, South Carolina in the 1950s, North Carolina in the 1960s, and Tennessee in the 1970s (Kral 1981). Reported from a single collection from Virginia in 1994, as a "contaminant in a container plant" (Virginia Botanical Associates 2007), but now established (Virginia Botanical Associates 2025). |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Phyllanthaceae | Nellica |  (c) Wong, Michelle - CC-BY | |||
| Phyllanthaceae | Nellica liebmanniana ssp. platylepis | Wet hammocks and pine flatwoods. | Endemic to the "Big Bend" area of the Florida Gulf Coast (Dixie, Lafayette, Levy, and Taylor counties). |  (c) lillybyrd - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | |
| Phyllanthaceae | Nellica polygonoides | Smartweed Leaf-flower | Grasslands, calcareous glades. | E. Louisiana west to New Mexico, south into Mexico. | (c) Wong, Michelle - CC-BY |
| Phyllanthaceae | Phyllanthaceae | Leaf-flower Family |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Phyllanthaceae | Phyllanthopsis | Maidenbush |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. | ||
| Phyllanthaceae | Phyllanthopsis phyllanthoides | Maidenbush | Dry, rocky woodlands, glades, exposed bluffs, river scour; on limestone or other calcareous rock. | C. Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, south to c. Texas; disjunct in c. Alabama and ec. Tennessee; disjunct in Nuevo León. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Phyllanthaceae | Phyllanthus | Leaf-flower | (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Phyllanthaceae | Phyllanthus angustifolius | Foliage-Flower, Swordbush | Disturbed hammocks, from horticultural use. | Native of West Indies. | |
| Phyllanthaceae | Phyllanthus caroliniensis | Carolina Leaf-flower | Roadsides, moist woodlands, forests, and fields, often in seasonally wet, muddy places. | Pennsylvania and Illinois south to c. peninsular Florida and Texas, and south to Argentina and Paraguay, the original range not clear, and perhaps introduced in part of its current range. | (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Phyllanthaceae | Phyllanthus evanescens | Coastal prairies, disturbed areas. | Alabama (Macon County) (Diamond 2014), Louisiana (St. Charles Parish) west to Texas; south into Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora) and Central America. |  (c) Keith, Eric - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | |
| Phyllanthaceae | Phyllanthus fluitans | Red Root Floater | Floating on stagnant waters of canals and streams. | Native of South America. |  (c) R.E.Llanos - CC-BY-NC-SA |
| Phyllanthaceae | Phyllanthus niruri | Gale-of-the-wind | Sandy riverbanks and streambanks. | Se. Texas; Mexico to Central America. Older reports of Phyllanthus niruri from North Carolina and South Carolina (Ahles, Bell, & Radford 1958) have proved to be Moeroris tenella (= Phyllanthus tenellus) (Webster 1970). | |
| Phyllanthaceae | Phyllanthus saxicola | Rockland Leaf-flower | Pine rocklands, wet pine flatwoods, wet prairies, disturbed wetlands and uplands. | S. Florida; West Indies (Bahamas, Greater Antilles). |  (c) Bradley, Keith |