Flowering spurge
Euphorbia corollata L.
other common names: flat-topped spurge, milk purslane, milkweed, snake milk, tramp’s spurge, white-flowered milkweed, wild hippo
Euphorbia: probably named for Euphorbus, a physician to King Juba of Numidia, an ancient country in an area of northern Africa that more or less corresponds to the present Algeria
Corollata: from Latin, meaning “with corollas”
Spurge family: Euphorbiaceae
Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition
Euphorbia corollata L.
other common names: flat-topped spurge, milk purslane, milkweed, snake milk, tramp’s spurge, white-flowered milkweed, wild hippo
Euphorbia: probably named for Euphorbus, a physician to King Juba of Numidia, an ancient country in an area of northern Africa that more or less corresponds to the present Algeria
Corollata: from Latin, meaning “with corollas”
Spurge family: Euphorbiaceae
Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition
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