Taxon: Euphorbia lathyris L.

• "lathyris" is derived from the Greek word for this plant
• Linnaeus's citations of Bauhin, Fuchs, and Camerarius were also corrected from "Lathyrus" to "Lathyris" in Sp. pl. ed. 2

Common names:

• caper spurge   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• gopherplant   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• moleplant   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• euphorbe épurge   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• kreuzblättrige Wolfsmilch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• sogsuja   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:98.) – Transcribed Korean
  
• catapúcia-menor   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• lechetrezna   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• tártago   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• korstörel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Fuels: potential as petroleum substitute/alcohol   (fide Noxweed Aust; Bot J Linn Soc 94:316. 1987)
  
• Materials: lipids   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed; Noxweed Aust)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Euphorbia lathyris from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [mountainous regions]
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia]
  Southwestern Europe: France - Corsica

• widely naturalized

• exact native range obscure

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).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Balakrishnan, N. P. & T. Chakrabarty. 2007. The family Euphorbiaceae in India; a synopsis of its profile, taxonomy and bibliography.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1992. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales. ["lathyrus"].
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. ["lathyrus"].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Horvath, D. 2011. Euphorbia. Pp. 7:125–132 in: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, plantation and ornamental crops.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds. 1986. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4. ["lathyrus"].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. ["lathyrus"].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:98.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Nicolson, D. H. 1979. pers. comm. to E. E. Terrell. ["lathyris" derived from Greek; Linnaeus corrected his epithet and citations in Sp. pl. ed. 2].
• Oudejans, R. C. H. M. 1990. World catalogue of species names published in the tribe Euphorbieae (Euphorbiaceae) with their geographical distribution.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Rizk, A. M. 1987. The chemical constituents and economic plants of the Euphorbiaceae. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 94:316.
• Stanley, T. D. & E. M. Ross. 1983–1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1968. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria. ["lathyrus"].

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Synonyms:

• (=) Euphorbia lathyrus L., orth. var.
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)

Check other web resources for Euphorbia lathyris L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

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