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|accepted_name=Stillingia sylvatica
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|place=12, 2: 637. 1767
|year=1767
}}
|common_names=Queen’s delight
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stillingia angustifolia
|authority=(Müller Arg.) Engelmann ex S. Watson
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. sylvatica var. salicifolia
|authority=Torrey
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. sylvatica subsp. tenuis
|authority=(Small) D. J. Rogers
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. tenuis
|authority=Small
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Stillingia;Stillingia sylvatica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Euphorbiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Stillingia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Stillingia sylvatica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 234
|treatment_page=page 236
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or subshrubs, perennial, with woody rhizome. <b>Stems</b> solitary or fascicled, erect or ascending, mostly unbranched, (1–)2.5–7(–12) dm. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; stipules absent; petiole 0–0.4(–0.8) cm; blade ovate, elliptic, lanceolate, obovate, or oblanceolate, 1–10 × 0.5–-3 cm, base acute or broadly cuneate, margins serrulate to crenulate, teeth without prominent blackened tips, incurved, apex acute, obtuse or rounded; midvein prominent, secondary veins ± obscure. <b>Inflorescences</b> sessile or short-pedunculate, 3–9 cm; staminate cymules ± crowded, 4–7-flowered; pistillate flowers 3–4, crowded; bracts broadly ovate, 1.5 × 2 mm, apex rounded or obtuse, glands patelliform, sessile, 1.5–2 mm diam. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: calyx 1 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals persistent, 3, well developed, elliptic; styles connate 1/3 length, to 5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> globose, 6–12 mm diam., shallowly 3-lobed; lobes of gynobase 4–6 mm; columella not persistent. <b>Seeds</b> light gray, short cylindric, 4.5 × 3 mm, rugose; caruncle white, broadly crescent-shaped, 1–1.3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun; fruiting Apr–Sep.
|habitat=Well-drained sandy soils, sandhills, pine flatwoods.
|elevation=0–1400 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Colo.;Fla.;Ga.;Kans.;La.;Miss.;N.Mex.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Throughout the range of Stillingia sylvatica, leaves vary widely in length/width ratio, though seldom on the same plant.</p><!--
--><p>Some populations in southern Florida have been recognized as Stillingia tenuis or S. sylvatica subsp. tenuis on the basis of linear or narrowly linear-elliptic leaves and slender, reddish inflorescences. Leaf blades of the southern Florida populations vary from linear to broadly elliptic and the reddish cast of the inflorescence is characteristic of only some of these populations and also occurs in S. aquatica. D. J. Rogers (1951) and G. L. Webster (1967) suggested that the characteristics used to define S. tenuis may be the result of introgression of S. aquatica into S. sylvatica, and that the putative subsp. tenuis might be an ecotype of predominantly calcareous soils of southern Florida.</p>
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name=Stillingia sylvatica
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Stillingia angustifolia;S. sylvatica var. salicifolia;S. sylvatica subsp. tenuis;S. tenuis
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun; fruiting Apr–Sep.
|habitat=Well-drained sandy soils, sandhills, pine flatwoods.
|elevation=0–1400 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Colo.;Fla.;Ga.;Kans.;La.;Miss.;N.Mex.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1767
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Stillingia
|species=Stillingia sylvatica
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