Flower Notes:
Yellow (Yellow-green, 1/3" 5-petaled flowers, unusual as Euonymus typically has 4-petaled flowers)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Dark green); Red (Shades of red in the fall)
Stem Notes:
Slender, 4-sided, squarish stem.
Fruit Notes:
Red (Bright red, warty seed capsules open to bright red seeds)
Soil Notes:
Moist, loamy to dry soils
Range:
Eastern United States and west to Texas.
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are opposite, simple, lance-ovate to lanceolate, 1/2 to 3 1/2" long, 1/2 to 1 1/4" wide, acuminate, cuneate, glabrous, crenate-serrate, flat medium green, turning yellow to green to shades of red in fall; petiole- 1/12 to 1/8"long. Seeds are a yellow-white with a bright red seed coat at 1/4" diameter. Seeds are encased by showy, 3-5 lobed, warty capsules that turn a bright red in the fall, ranging 1/2 to 3/4" in diameter.