Stillingia aquatica | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
Genus: | Stillingia |
Species: | S. aquatica |
Binomial name | |
Stillingia aquatica | |
Stillingia aquatica, known as water toothleaf and corkwood, is a flowering shrub in the genus Stillingia that grows in the Southeastern United States in parts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and South Carolina. [1] It is in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae . [2] [3] Stillingia aquatica was described by Alvan Wentworth Chapman in 1860. [4]