Adenoropium berlandieri (Torrey) Small Jatropha berlandieri Torrey[2] Jatropha cathartica is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, that is native to Texas in the United States and Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico.

[4] Jatropha cathartica is a perennial herb that grows from an enlarged, tuberlike woody root (caudex).

[6] The flowers are showy, bright pink to poppy-red, and arrayed in loose clusters at the ends of long peduncles.

Each inflorescence bears individual flowers up to 12 mm wide, of which 3–4 are female and 10–12 are male.

[5] Berlandier's nettlespurge grows scattered among brush, usually on clay soil in hot, arid regions.