#spurge any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice
supertype: shrub__bush a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches
member of: genus_Euphorbia
subtype: caper_spurge__caperspurge__myrtle_spurge__mole_plant__Euphorbia_lathyris poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil
subtype: sun_spurge__sunspurge__wartweed__wartwort__devil's_milk__devil'smilk__euphorbiahelioscopia not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun
subtype: petty_spurge__pettyspurge__devil's_milk__devil'smilk__euphorbiapeplu an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States
subtype: medusa's_head__Euphorbia_medusae__Euphorbia_caput-medusae African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branches
subtype: wild_spurge__flowering_spurge__floweringspurge__tramp's_spurge__tramp'sspurge__Euphorbia_corollata common perennial United States spurge having showy white petallike bracts
subtype: snow-on-the-mountain__snow-in-summer__ghost_weed__ghostweed__Euphorbia_marginata annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk
subtype: cypress_spurge__cypressspurge__Euphorbia_cyparissias Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress; naturalized as a weed in the United States
subtype: leafy_spurge__leafyspurge__wolf's_milk__Euphorbia_esula tall European perennial naturalized and troublesome as a weed in eastern North America
subtype: hairy_spurge__hairyspurge__Euphorbia_hirsuta much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America
subtype: poinsettia__Christmas_star__Christmas_flower__lobster_plant__lobsterplant__Mexican_flameleaf__painted_leaf__paintedleaf__Euphorbia_pulcherrima tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
subtype: Japanese_poinsettia__mole_plant__paint_leaf__paintleaf__Euphorbia_heterophylla showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru
subtype: fire-on-the-mountain__painted_leaf__paintedleaf__Mexican_fire_plant__Euphorbia_cyathophora poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla
subtype: wood_spurge__Euphorbia_amygdaloides European perennial herb with greenish yellow terminal flower clusters
subtype: Euphorbia_antisyphilitica__candelilla wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States
subtype: dwarf_spurge__dwarfspurge__Euphorbia_exigua European erect or depressed annual weedy spurge adventive in northeastern United States
subtype: scarlet_plume__scarletplume__Euphorbia_fulgens Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers
subtype: naboom__cactus_euphorbia__Euphorbia_ingens small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra
subtype: Christ_thorn__crown_of_thorns__Christ_plant__Euphorbia_milii somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
subtype: toothed_spurge__toothedspurge__Euphorbia_dentata an annual weed of northeastern North America with dentate leaves
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