Distribution : D'après Riina
et al.
(
2021): "found in fields, roadsides, waste places, open andmostly dry vegetation, deciduous to occasionally moist forests, with several species endemic to open vegetation in white-sand areas of the Amazon basin, and iswidespread in the New World from the United States to Argentina, from sea level to 2150 m (Fig. 1).
Croton glandulosus
and
C. hirtus
are naturalized weeds in Africa,Asia, Indonesia, and Australia."