QUEENSDELIGHT (Stillingia sylvatica)

WHAT FLORIDA NATIVE PLANT IS BLOOMING TODAY?: QUEENSDELIGHT (Stillingia sylvatica)

low growing shrub

Learn: https://regionalconservation.org/beta/nfyn/PD_PFriendly.asp?tx=Stilsylv

an ingredient in the Hoxsey herbal tonic used as a cancer treatment: http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/herb/stillingia

Native American Ethnobotany for this genus: http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Stillingia+sylvatica

You can get a better sense of the flowers in this photo from April 2012

and of the growth habit in this photo from March 2011

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