| Description | Flowering Spurge (Euphorbia corollata) is a native prairie plant that looks like Baby's Breath with the small flowers mingling among the foliage of its companion plants |
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| Pronunciation | (yoo-FOR-bee-uh) |
| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | very adaptable, mesic to dry sites |
| Flowers | 5 white petal like bracts, flowers small yellow cyathia |
| Fruit | mechanically eject seeds from pod |
| Leaves | single, alternative except where they form a whorl at the apex of the stem, |
| Stems | short rhizomes, bleeds a toxic latex sap, stems are unusually unbranched except at the apex where the inflorescence occurs |
| Roots | forms a taproot |
| Dimensions | up to three feet |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Misc Facts | Euphorbia: for Euphorbus, corpulent Greek physician of Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba, educated in Rome, and married to daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. From eu, "good" and phorbe, "pasture or fodder," thus giving euphorbos the meaning "well fed." corollata: Latin for "with a corolla" (#152) |
| Notes & Reference | #152B-The Flora of Wisconsin (wisflora.herbarium.wisc.edu), #153-Illinois Wild Flower (www.illinoiswildflowers.info) |
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