​Texas Croton, Doveweed, Skunkweed, Barbasco,Croton texensis,Spurge Family (Euphorbiaceae)

Found in sandy soils, disturbed soil, roadsides
Seen blooming in July in Arroyo Toro, Medanales

Texas Croton has an aromatic smell when the leaves are crushed. It varies from 1 foot to 3 feet tall, depending on moisture conditions. It grows from a single yellowish stem with many branches and has a milky sap. The green to yellowish-green leaves are oblong and have silvery hairs beneath giving an ashy appearance. The tiny flowers grow in clusters with white sepals, no petals. Texas Croton produces a seed crop that is very valuable to dove, quail and other seed-eating birds, thus the common name Doveweed. Native Americans applied crushed seed powder to sores, steeped the leaves and took the liquid to treat venereal disease, stomach pain, and as a laxative. A liquid made by boiling the plant was used to bath sick infants and as an eyewash. Seeds were placed in the ears in the belief that they would help the partially deaf hear better. The Navajo used it on a large fire to smoke clothes and remove skunk smell. A Zuni medicine man chewed the dried root before sucking a snakebite. Source.
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