Spurge
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Spurge (Euphorbia) - Perennials and dwarf bushy plants, including few hardy species of value for the flower garden. The foliage of some, such as E. cyparissus (Cypress Spurge), is elegant. In spring E.
Spurge
Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
Genus: Euphorbia
Species: characias subsp. wulfenii ...
Spurge
Euphorbia pseudocactus
An upright growing cactus-like succulent with thick green stems striped with white and light green variegation. It is believed that sharing this plant with your friends will bring you good luck.
The stem is hairy.
Eyebane (E. maculata) is more erect and the stem is not hairy.
Seaside Spurge (E. polygonifolia) is salt tolerant and is found almost exclusively on sandy beaches. It has a jointed stem.
Spurges belong to a very broad genus with numerous species, which are found throughout all continents. Several hardy members show a very decorative foliage and have some inflorescences with bright colored bracts (i.e. pseudo petals).
Wood Spurge
Characteristics
There is about 7,000 species of Spurge. The flowers of this Spurge are at the end of unbranched stems are unusual in that they do not have any petals.
Wood Spurge
An evergreen plant that is excellent in sun or shade. A carefree, slowly spreading groundcover with shiny, deep green, leathery leaves. Yellow green disc-like bracts back chartreuse yellow flowers in late spring which last for months.
Wood spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides) health benefits
Popular name: wood spurge.
Traditionally: well developed plants in bloom were used in many villages for dying eggs, fibers and fabrics.
Leafy Spurge
Euphorbia esula
Leafy spurge was introduced from Eurasia. In the northern Midwest and Northwest it is a very troublesome weed. In Connecticut, it is considered potentially invasive.
(spurge family)
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Euphorbia cyparissias, cypress spurge, fields and gardens (fig. 37A) ...
All spurges share an easily recognizable trait-a milky white sap that appears when a leaf or stem is broken.
Wood spurge is a soft, hairy, evergreen perennial with red-tinged stems and matte dark green leaves with red tones underneath. In mid-spring to early summer, it produces 8-inch-tall, greenish-yellow bracts.
Caper Spurge is an erect biennial, or occasionally annual plant, growing up to 1.5 m tall, with a glaucous blue-green stem. Leaves are arranged in opposite pairs. Neighbouring pairs are perpendicular to each other.
Leafy Spurge - Integrated Pest Management Manual
DOI. National Park Service.
Identification/Description; Impacts; Life Cycle; Dispersion; Controls; Special Note: Excellent references section ...
Japanese Spurge
Rapid-growing, these ground covers or low shrubs are perfect for partly shady areas, especially under trees, in moist or dry sites.
Rocky Mountain Spurge was used medicinally by the Navajo Indians. For cathartic purposes a compound infusion of plants was taken for purging. The plant was also rubbed as a liniment or poultice of plant applied to boils and pimples.
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Spurge Family pictures
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BACKGROUND: Leafy spurge was transported to the U.S. possibly as a seed impurity in the early 1800s. First recorded from Massachusetts in 1827, leafy spurge spread quickly and reached North Dakota within about 80 years.
( Allegheny Spurge )
Pachysandra procumbens is a deciduous or semi-evergreen ground cover, spreading slowly by rhizomes. Leaves are alternate, simple, 2 to 4 inches long, elliptic to obovate, prominently toothed.
Caution: Although this is one of the few members of the spurge family not poisonous to humans, large doses may cause nausea and vomiting. Euphorbia should not be combined with Glycyrrhiza.
Preparation and Dosage: (thrice daily) ...
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Spurge family is well known for the poinsettia and other showy euphorbias, but not for its unusual vines. This is one which seems to enchant anyone who sees it. It has slender, somewhat hairy stems, climbing to 10-20'.
Spurge, Pachysandra
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Four species of evergreen or semi-evergreen herbaceous perennials or subshrubs. Form mat-like or mounding clumps of fleshy, rhizome-like stems, with deep green leaves in whorls of 2-4 at the tips. Thrive in dry shade.
Spurges
(Euphorbia esula LINN.)
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Spurge - common name for members of the Euphorbiaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and trees of greatly varied structure and almost cosmopolitan distribution, although most species are tropical. In the United ...
Spurge, 'Chameleon'
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Caper spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, which is a biennial plant, has its adherents who claim the root exudates repel moles. It is worth a try, but remove most of the flower heads before seeding occurs or a weed problem may result.
Cushion spurge is a relative of the poinsettia, and as such, its showy "flowers" are not really flowers but actually modified leaves called bracts. Unlike most of its relatives, cushion spurge is quite hardy -- reliable to zone 4.
Spotted Spurge, Spotted Euphorbia, Spurge,Spotted
Species:
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Japanese Spurge,
an ideal shade groundcover
Pachysandra terminalis, a hardy groundcover, spends its first year sending out thick white roots underground & not showing all that much above-ground growth.
Shorthorn Spurge grows in a tangled mass up to several feet wide and over a foot tall (as pictured here in a moist area) or it may be spindly and solitary in dry conditions.
Japanese Spurge or Pachysandra terminalis: This is one of the most functional plants used in today's landscape. It is a rapid-growing groundcover. Plants are 9 to 12 inches high.
Japanese Spurge, more commonly known as Pachysandra, is an evergreen for ground covering. In many shaded parts of the garden it is impossible to grow grass, yet it is desirable to have some sort of green ground covering.
Family: Spurge (Euphorbiaceae)
Flowering: May-June
Field Marks: This shrub has lanceolate to elliptic, toothless, alternate leaves, yellowish green flowers in spike-like racemes borne in the axils of the uppermost leaves.
Try Japanese Spurge, Pachysandra terminalis, as Shade Groundcover
For shady woodland or city gardens, pachysandra, Japanese spurge, is often chosen. Why is this plant the most widely planted shade groundcover in America?
Palm leaves my be several feet in length while those of cacti and spurges may be almost microscopic. Stems are roughly divided into regions called nodes and internodes. Leaves arise from nodes .
and hybrids (Spurge)
Fargesia sp. (Clumping Bamboo)
Festuca glauca (Blue Fescue)
Foeniculum vulgaris (Fennel)
Fritillaria sp. (Fritillaria)
Galanthus sp. (Snowdrop)
Gaura lindheimeri (Gaura)
Grevillea sp. (Grevillea) ...
Mediterranean spurge is a shrubby, non-succulent euphorb with upright purplish-green stems that are smooth and woody at their bases and covered with fine, wooly hairs farther out. Broken stems exude a white milky latex sap.
Rubber trees are large trees (belonging to the spurge family, family Euphorbiaceae) that live in tropical (warm) areas. These trees are tapped for their latex (from which rubber is made), which is produced in their bark layers (it is not the sap).
Laureola, spurge laurel, a small evergreen shrub with green flowers in the leaf axils towards the ends of the branches and ovoid black very poisonous berries, is found in England in copses and on hedge-banks in stiff soils. D.
Euphorbia rigida ‘Spurge'
This attractive, low growing, evergreen euphorbia's young plants are upright, but spread as they mature to produce elegantly arching clumps no taller than about nine inches. It looks charming sited among paving.
Castor bean (Ricinus communis) is a member of the spurge family and is native to tropical Africa where it grows as a tree to 40 feet tall. When grown as an annual it is usually a more modest 10 feet tall.
One major exception to this rule is Pachysandra procumbens, an East Coast member of the Buxaceae (boxwood) family commonly referred to as Allegheny spurge.
Euphorbia palustris types - Spurge
Filipendula ulmaria and others
Geranium cultivars G. Ann Folkard, and most others.
Gaultheria. Damp and shady is fine for these evergreens
Hemerocallis - Day lily. Mentioned above as a superb moisture lover.
Nombres relacionados: Adelfilla (castellano), Laureola macho (castellano), Lloreret (catalán), Salavionda (castellano), Spurge Laurel (inglés), Spurgelaurel (inglés), Thymelaeaceae (familia), Torvisco macho (castellano).
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Euphorbia cyparissias Cypress spurge. Spreads with thread-like roots which are very difficult to eradicate.
Centranthus ruber Such a nuisance because it seeds itself badly.
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