Marsh Spurge - Euphorbia palustris

Height about 90 to 100 cm sometimes more. A bushy plant with thick, erect stems. It has numerous grey-green stem leaves which have a distinctive white midrib and are hairless on both sides. It is quite a distinctive plant with large terminal clusters of bright greenish-yellow bracts and flowers. Capsule with short warts.

Several other tall spurge may be present, as garden escapes or casual introductions

A specimen will be required for the County Recorder to verify this species

Damp places, marshy areas.  Occasionally grown in gardens and may escape or be planted deliberately in the wild

Flowers May and July.

Herbaceous perennial.

Little recorded as a wild plant in Britain.  It is not described in Stace's New Flora of the British Isles (4th edn.)

Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.

It is not listed in the current checklist (Jeeves, 2011).