North Carolina Wildflowers

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Euphorbiaceae > Stillingia

Queen's-delight (Stillingia sylvatica) Queen's-delight (Stillingia sylvatica)
Pine flatwoods in Scotland Co., NC
14 June 2008

Common in the Carolina sandhills and some other parts of the coastal plain in fairly dry woods.

Queen's-delight (Stillingia sylvatica) Queen's-delight (Stillingia sylvatica)
Pine flatwoods in Scotland Co., NC
14 June 2008

Queen's-delight (Stillingia sylvatica) Queen's-delight (Stillingia sylvatica)
Pine flatwoods in Scotland Co., NC
14 June 2008

Very strange flower!


Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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