SCIENTIFIC NAME: Euphorbia corollata
COMMON NAMES: Eastern Flowering Spurge, Flowering Spurge, Poison Milkweed, Tramp's Spurge, White Flowering Milkweed, Wild Hippo, Wild Spurge
BLOOM TIME: June, July, Aug
PLANT PROFILE:
INSECT/ANIMAL INTERACTIONS:
- The seeds are eaten by some birds, including the Wild Turkey, Greater Prairie Chicken, Bobwhite Quail, Mourning Dove, and Horned Lark.
- Rarely eaten by mammals because of the toxic white latex in its foliage.