| Dicotyledon | Literature for Euphorbia peplus
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Euphorbiaceae -- The Spurge Family | Bibliography |
| Euphorbia peplus | |
Common name(s): spurge, petty spurge |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to temperate Eurasia, now a cosmopolitan weed.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kure, Midway, Kaua`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Annual herbs; stems 1.5-3.5 dm long, glabrous. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves bright green, caducous below, alternate below, becoming opposite or ternate above, membranous, floral leaves smaller, often congested and reflexed, spatulate, 1-1.4 cm long, 0.8-1.2 cm wide, margins entire, apex rounded, base acute or cuneate, petioles 0-0.6 cm long, stipules absent. |
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| Flowers |
Cyathia solitary in the forks of the upper branches, peduncles 0.6-1 mm long; involucre pale green, ca. 1 mm high, glabrous, glands 4, green, crescent-shaped, ca. 0.5 mm long, with slender or filiform horns 0.5-0.7 mm long. |
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| Fruit |
Capsules broadly ovoid, shallowly 3-lobed, 1.8-2 mm long, 2-2.2 mm in diameter. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds gray, ovoid-oblong, weakly 6-angled, ca. 1.5 mm long, ca. 0.8 mm wide, coarsely
pitted and minutely white tuberculate, carunculate. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 16 |
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