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Texas toothleaf

Stillingia texana

Also called Texas Stillingia, Texas Queen's Delight

Texas toothleaf
Photo: Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0

Texas toothleaf is a native perennial subshrub of dry, limestone prairies in central Texas, Oklahoma and northern Mexico. It is rarely grown in gardens, and it does best with full sun, sharp drainage and little water once established.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, alkaline or calcareous soil such as rocky limestone-based mixes.
Temperature
Tolerates hot summers and cold winters typical of its native range; protect from prolonged frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. Oklahoma to Mexico (Coahuila)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Stillingia texana, the Texas toothleaf, is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It was described in 1923 by Ivan Murray Johnston.

Where it grows

S. texana is native to the South Central United States and Mexico. In central Texas, it is widespread in upland, calcareous prairies, spreading north to scattered locations in Oklahoma and south to Coahuila.

Other Stillingia plants

Stillingia acutifolia · Water toothleaf · Stillingia argutedentata · Stillingia bicarpellaris · Stillingia bodenbenderi · Stillingia dichotoma · Stillingia diphtherina · Queen's-root · Bois Jasmin · Stillingia oppositifolia · Stillingia parvifolia · Mojave toothleaf

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stillingia texana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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