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Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia

Leafy Spurge
(Euphorbia esula)

  • Provincial Noxious Weed

  • perennial with persistent vertical and horizontal creeping roots; grows to 0.8 metres tall; leaves spirally arranged on the stem; inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers inserted above 2 leaf-like yellow-green bracts

  • all parts of the plant contain a white milky latex that can irritate skin of livestock and humans
Greenish-yellow flower clusters and bracts

Photo courtesy BC Ministry of Forests
Creeping rootstocks

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