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Stillingiasylvatica Garden ex Linnaeus. Queen's-delight. Phen: Apr-Jul (-Aug); May-Sep. Hab: Longleaf pine sandhills, dryish Coastal Plain woodlands, other dry woodlands. Dist: Se. VA south to s. FL, west to s. TX, s. NM, and Mexico (COA, MIC, TAM), north in the interior to KS and se. CO. Apparently disjunct inland in KY, based on a well-documented occurrence found by C.W. Short in 1840: "rare -- barrens of Kentucky" (M. Brock, pers.comm., 2024).
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Taxonomy Comments:S. sylvatica may contain an additional entity distributed in peninsular FL and s. GA, designated by Small (1933) as S. spathulata. S. spathulata putatively differs structurally from S. sylvatica in having smaller capsules, shorter seeds, and in having many individuals in a population with oblanceolate (common) to truly spatulate (infrequent) leaf blades. Nevertheless, individuals with narrowly elliptical leaves are present in most S. spathulata populations. The two entities occupy similar niches throughout their respective ranges, and are not genetically isolated.
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, G, GrPl, RAB, Tx; = Stillingiasylvatica Garden ex L. ssp. sylvatica – K1, K3, Va, Govaerts, Frodin, & Radcliffe-Smith (2000), Rogers (1951); > Stillingiaspathulata (Müller of Aargau) Small – S, S13; < Stillingiasylvatica Garden ex L. – Fl2, FNA12, K4, Mex, WH3; > Stillingiasylvatica Garden ex L. – S, S13; > Stillingiasylvatica Garden ex L. var. salicifolia Torr. – F; > Stillingiasylvatica Garden ex L. var. sylvatica – F
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Horticultural Information
Intro:Erect perennial found in sandhills and (mostly) Coastal Plain dry woodlands.
Stems:Stems often branched from the base, yellow-green, smooth.
Leaves:Leaves alternate, angled upward, short-petiolate to sessile, elliptic, to 3 1/2 in. long, finely toothed (each tooth with a tiny, red gland), glossy smooth.
Inforescence:
Flowers:Flowers in a terminal spike, on which a few female flowers occupy the base and many male flowers are above; yellowish-green; with a round, cupped nectar gland to each side of each flower.
Fruits:Fruit a sessile, green, 3-lobed capsule.
Comments:
Height:1-2 1/2 ft.
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description:Erect perennial found in sandhills and (mostly) Coastal Plain dry woodlands.
stems:Stems often branched from the base, yellow-green, smooth.
leaves:Leaves alternate, angled upward, short-petiolate to sessile, elliptic, to 3 1/2 in. long, finely toothed (each tooth with a tiny, red gland), glossy smooth.
inflorescence:
flowers:Flowers in a terminal spike, on which a few female flowers occupy the base and many male flowers are above; yellowish-green; with a round, cupped nectar gland to each side of each flower.
