Identifier

3.73414

Type

Photographic image

Date created

2005 – 2012

Description

Euphorbia corollata L. (flowering spurge), image shows tiny white flowers on delicate stems, erect perennial 12-40" tall that arises from a deep root and having a milky sap, stem is smooth to coarsely hairy and multi-branched above (like an umbel or panicle), stem leaves below the branching are alternate linear to elliptic 1-2.5" long, leaves just below the primary branches are similar but whorled, small *flowers terminate the many branches forming a loose cyme that may be 12" across, the *flower cups have conspicuous white *petals (appendages)
* several male flowers surround a single female flower forming a cup-like inflorescence called the cyathium that simulates a single flower but mostly is not showy