Taxon: Euphorbia peplus L.

Common names:

• petty spurge   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• radium-plant   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• euphorbe des jardins   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• Garten-Wolfsmilch   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• ésula-redonda   (Source: R. Riina, p.c.) – Portuguese
  
• alfavaca-venenosa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• leiteira-de-jardim   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• tomagallos   (Source: R. Riina, p.c.) – Spanish
  
• rävtörel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

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View toxicology references for Euphorbia peplus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Arabia; Kuwait; Oman; Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Jammu and Kashmir, Meghalaya; Pakistan [w.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete & Aegean Islands]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds. 2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Balakrishnan, N. P. & T. Chakrabarty. 2007. The family Euphorbiaceae in India; a synopsis of its profile, taxonomy and bibliography.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). Art. 22.6, Ex. 5.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Marzocca, A. 1994. Guia descriptiva de malezas del cono sur. 119–120.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora of China Checklist (on-line resource).
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Reitz, R., ed. 1988. Flora ilustrada catarinense. 378, 379.
• Riina, R. 2011. Review of Euphorbiaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. via e–mail on 11 Jan.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1968. Flora europaea. 2:222.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).

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Check other web resources for Euphorbia peplus L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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

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