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Spurge Family:- "All our spurges (Euphorbia) are non-woody plants of no great height, with an acrid milky juice and undivided leaves, which in the great majority are also alternate and untoothed. Their flowers are yellowish-green in umbel-like clusters which broaden as they develop. They are a fantastic surrealist jumble of strange miniature shapes, 1-stalked female with three often forked styles among many minute 1-stamened male flowers. This group is based in a fleshy cup with 4 conspicuous oval or crecent-shaped lobes. From this lolls on an elongated stalk the round 3-celled fruit. What appears to be petals are actually outer bracts." from Collins Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by David McClintock and R.S.R. Fitter assisted by Francis Rose - ISBN 0 00 219363 9 - Eleventh Impression 1978. Spurge Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Sedge Carex to Stonecrop Wild Flower Families Gallery:- |
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Common Name |
Botanical Name |
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Annual Mercury |
Mercurialis annua |
May onwards |
A dioecious annual of disturbed waste places, cultivated ground, particularly in allotments and gardens, rubbish tips, walls, and roadsides, thriving on light, nutrient-rich soils. It produces a long-lived seed bank. Lowland. It is a widespread but local weed, chiefly in Southern England and near the sea. |
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Male Flower from Rochester in September |
Female Flowers from Rochester in Kent in September |
Foliage |
Form from Rochester in September |
Broad Spurge |
Euphorbia platyphyllos |
June onwards |
An annual of cultivated and waste ground, usually growing on calcareous clays but sometimes on lighter chalk or limestone soils. It is found most frequently at the margins of arable fields, and occasionally on roadsides. Its seed is thought to be long-lived in the soil. Lowland. |
Caper Spurge |
A biennial of disturbed ground and waste places, including roadsides, abandoned gardens, old quarries and rubbish tips, often near human habitation; it also occurs in open woodland. The seeds are very long-lived. Lowland. |
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Flower in June |
Flowers in June |
Foliage in April |
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Cypress Spurge |
A rhizomatous perennial herb widely naturalised as a garden escape in waste places such as tracksides, roadsides, walls and sandy banks, and also in calcareous grassland and amongst scrub. It can colonise arable margins, and may become established on sand dunes. It also grows on some racecourses where it could have been introduced with horse-feed or bedding. Lowland. |
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Flower from Kerry |
Flowers from Halling in Kent |
Foliage from Triesemberg on 9 May |
Form from Triesemberg in Liciechenstein on 9 May |
Dog's Mercury |
Mercurialis perennis |
A rhizomatous, dioecious perennial herb usually growing on damp but free-draining base-rich soils. In the lowlands it is largely restricted to shaded sites, including ancient woodland, older secondary woodland, hedgerows and shaded banks, but in the uplands it occurs on unshaded basic crags, scree, cliff ledges and in ravines, particularly on moist N.-facing slopes, and it also grows in the grikes of limestone pavements. 0-1005 m (Ben Lawers, Mid Perth). |
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Female Flower from Halling in Kent on 21 March |
Male Flowers from Halling on 21 March |
Foliage from Halling on 21 March |
Form from Halling on 21 March |
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Female Flowers from Halling on 21 March |
Male Flowers in March |
Male Flowers on Stem from Halling on 21 March |
Foliage in April |
Dwarf Spurge |
Euphorbia exigua |
May onwards |
An annual of arable land, less frequently occurring in other areas of disturbed ground such as gardens, waste ground and bare patches in dry grassland. It favours dry, light and base-rich soils in sunny situations. Lowland. |
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Flower from Strood in Kent in July |
Flowers from Strrod in Kent on 30 June |
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Hungarian Spurge |
June onwards |
A perennial herb naturalised in similar habitats to Euphorbia x pseudovirgata, including tracks, hedgerows, waste ground and road verges. Lowland. |
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Flower from Chatham in Kent |
Flowers from Chatham |
Foliage from Chatham |
Form from Chatham |
Irish Spurge |
Euphorbia hyberna |
A rhizomatous perennial of woodland glades, hedgerows and shaded stream banks, growing best when receiving dappled sun for at least part of the day. Lowland, reaching 500 m in Waterville (S. Kerry) and reportedly to 550 m elsewhere in Co. Kerry. |
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Foliage from Waterville in Kerry on 21 June |
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Petty Spurge |
Throughout the year |
An annual of cultivated, disturbed and waste ground, frequently growing close to human habitation and favouring well-drained and nutrient-rich soils in sun-warmed situations. 0-410 m in Mid-W. Yorkshire. |
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Flower from Rochester in Kent |
Flowers from Rochester |
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Portland Spurge |
Euphorbia portlandica |
A biennial or short-lived perennial herb, growing in a wide range of coastal habitats. It occurs on cliffs, rocky slopes and steep maritime grasslands overlying many different rock types, and also on shingle and sheltered or semi-fixed sand dunes. Lowland. |
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Flower from Murrough in County Clare |
Flowers from Berry Head in Devon in May |
Foliage from Berry Head in May |
Form from Berry Head in May |
Purple Spurge |
Euphorbia peplis |
An annual which grows on fine shingle or coarse sand just above the high-water mark of spring tides. Lowland. |
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Sea Spurge |
Euphorbia paralias |
June onwards |
A deep-rooted perennial herb, thriving on free-draining mobile or semi-stable sand dunes, often in the company of Euphorbia portlandica. It also occurs along the drift-line of sandy foreshores and less frequently on shingle. Lowland. |
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Flower from Sandwich in Kent on 13 July |
Flowers from Sandwich in July |
Foliage from East Kent on 11 July |
Form from East Kent on 11 July |
Sun Spurge |
April onwards |
An annual growing in cultivated and disturbed ground in gardens, on waste ground and in arable fields, particularly with root and leaf crops. It thrives on dry, well-drained, neutral to base-rich soils in sun-warmed situations. The seeds may be dispersed by ants. Mainly lowland, but ascending to 450 m in Clun Forest (Salop). |
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Flower in May |
Flowers in April |
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Form in April |
Tintern Spurge |
Euphorbia stricta |
June omwards |
Woodlands and Hedges (confined to clearings in limestone woods in the lower Wye valley and a hedge-bank near Bath) |
Wood Spurge |
A rhizomatous perennial herb of neutral or acidic soils in old woods and shaded hedge banks, more rarely found amongst scrub and around rock outcrops. In woods it is a light-demanding plant which may re-appear from buried seed after coppicing. It is also cultivated as a garden plant, where it is persistent and can be very invasive. Generally lowland, reaching 455 m at Rhydymain (Merioneth). |
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Flower from Berry Head |
Flowers from Berry Head in Devon |
Foliagefrom Berry Head in May |
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