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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Euphorbia discoidalis   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euphorbia discoidalis   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Euphorbia discoidalis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12 (2016)

Euphorbia discoidalis

INCLUDED WITHIN World checklist of Euphorbiaceae (Govaerts, Frodin & Radcliffe-Smith, 2000)

Euphorbia corollata var. corollata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Euphorbia discoidalis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Tithymalopsis discoidalis

 

COMMON NAME:
Summer Spurge


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Euphorbia discoidalis   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euphorbia discoidalis   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Euphorbia discoidalis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12
Euphorbia discoidalis

INCLUDED WITHIN World checklist of Euphorbiaceae (Govaerts, Frodin & Radcliffe-Smith, 2000)
Euphorbia corollata var. corollata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Euphorbia discoidalis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Tithymalopsis discoidalis

 

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2916

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, shortleaf pine woodlands in the Interior Highlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia & possibly South Carolina

Common in GA Coastal Plain

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Petaloid appendages of glands white
Cyathium with 5 glands
Unisexual

FRUIT:
Capsule

 

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