Broad-leaved Glaucous-spurge - Euphorbia myrsinites
E. myrsinites is an evergreen plant with trailing leafy stems to 35cm in length. Leaves slightly fleshy and scale-like, glaucous grey-green and pointed; flowers yellow green, in terminal clusters 10cm in width.
Nearly always found as an escape from cultivation and often close to habitation.
Flowering May-June.
Evergreen perennial.
Infrequently recorded in the wild in Britain usually as an escape from cultivation.
Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Craig Mabbett
Peatling Magna Arnesby Lane
09 October 2022
Craig Mabbett
Peatling Magna Arnesby Lane
09 October 2022
Craig Mabbett
Peatling Magna Arnesby Lane
09 October 2022
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Species profile
- Common names
- Broad-leaved Glaucous-spurge
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Malpighiales
- Family:
- Euphorbiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 09/10/2022 (Mabbett, Craig)
- Last record:
- 09/10/2022 (Mabbett, Craig)
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