Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Euphorbia corollata
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Eastern Flowering Spurge at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euphorbia corollata
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Euphorbia corollata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12 (2016)
Euphorbia corollata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Euphorbia corollata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 107-11-013a:
Euphorbia corollata var. corollata FAMILY Euphorbiaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Euphorbia corollata
INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Euphorbia marilandica
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Euphorbia corollata var. corollata
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Euphorbia corollata var. mollis
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Euphorbia marilandica
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Tithymalopsis corollata
COMMON NAME:
Eastern Flowering Spurge
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_tico4_001_lvd
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USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970 swus_page_247
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_euphorbia_corollata
August
Flowering June-Sept, inflorescences appearing corymbose and densely flowered, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
COMPARE
Flowering Spurge and False Flowering Spurge
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_euphorbia_corollata_b
August
Cyathia (5-)6.5-8.0(-11.0)mm wide (across the appendages), per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow s000820_d
August Greenville County SC
Leaves leathery, sessile, ascending, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_euphorbia_corollata_2
September
Latex so skin-caustic that it has been used to brand cattle, per Book of Field and Roadside (Eastman, 2003).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Euphorbia corollata
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euphorbia corollata
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Euphorbia corollata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12
Euphorbia corollata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Euphorbia corollata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 107-11-013a:
Euphorbia corollata var. corollata
FAMILY
Euphorbiaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Euphorbia corollata
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Euphorbia marilandica
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Euphorbia corollata var. corollata
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Euphorbia corollata var. mollis
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Euphorbia marilandica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Tithymalopsis corollata
561
Forb
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: woodlands and forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Mountains, NC Piedmont & SC Coastal Plain (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, opposite, or whorled
Leaves sessile, or petioles to 5mm long
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Petaloid appendages of glands white, greenish
or pinkish
Cyathium with 5 glands
Unisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p159
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p129
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p100
- Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p160
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p202
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p119
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p149
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p047
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p139
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p180
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p158
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p195
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p092
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