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Euphorbia Peplus
''Euphorbia peplus'' (petty spurge, radium weed, cancer weed, or milkweed), is a species of ''Euphorbia'', native to most of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia, where it typically grows in cultivated arable land, gardens and other disturbed land.''Flora Europaea''''Euphorbia peplus''/ref>Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). ''Flora of Britain and Northern Europe''. Outside of its native range it is very widely naturalised and often invasive, including in Australia, New Zealand, North America and other countries in temperate and sub-tropical regions. Description It is an annual plant growing to tall (most plants growing as weeds of cultivation tend towards the smaller end), with smooth hairless stems. The leaves are oval-acute, long, with a smooth margin. It has green flowers in three-rayed umbels. The glands, typical of the Euphorbiaceae, are kidney-shaped with long thin horns. Medicinal uses The plant's sap is toxic to rapidly replicating human tissue, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphorbia Peplis
''Euphorbia peplis'', the purple spurge, is a species of ''Euphorbia'', native to southern and western Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia, where it typically grows on coastal sand and shingle.''Flora Europaea''''Euphorbia peplis''/ref>Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). ''Flora of Britain and Northern Europe''. It is a small, prostrate annual plant, the stems growing to long, typically with four stems from the base. The leaves are opposite, oval, long, grey-green with reddish-purple veins. At the northern edge of its range in England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ..., it has always been rare, and is now extinct.Pearman, D. A. & Preston, C. D. (2002). The last British record of Euphorbia peplis. ''BSBI News'' 91: 25. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
