Taxon: Euphorbia myrsinites L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CO*°, OR*, WA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• broad-leaf glaucous spurge   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• myrtle euphorbia   (Source: Ency GardPl ) – English
  
• myrtle spurge   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F; Ency GardPl)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann)
  
• Weed
  

More:

View toxicology references for Euphorbia myrsinites from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

      Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sicily]

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI database (on-line resource). (BSBI)
• Brickell, C., ed. 1997. The American Horticultural Society. Encyclopaedia of garden plants. (Ency GardPl)
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae. (L Euphorb)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. (Lampe & McCann)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Euphorbia myrsinites.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Euphorbia myrsinites.

Check other databases for Euphorbia myrsinites L.:

• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?16389 (09 September 2010)

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