2618

Shrub
Perennial
Monoecious

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (rare in NC)

Look for it in swamp forests, other wet to moist, mostly shaded, habitats, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Does not have milky sap

LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Green
Unisexual
3 sepals
Petals absent
3 stamens in staminate flowers

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast p083

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Ditrysinia fruticosa   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

(?) SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ditrysinia fruticosa   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 107-09-001:
Sebastiania ligustrina   FAMILY Euphorbiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Sebastiania fruticosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sebastiana ligustrina