Spotted Spurge

[Euphorbia maculata (L.) Small]

(also called Chamaescyce maculata)

Euphorbiaceae (Spurge Family)

▲ seedling

▲ ▼ young, mature plants

▲ ▼ flowering plants

▲ ▼ mature plants showing purplish spots on leaves

 Spotted spurge (pp. 296-297, Weeds of the Great Plains; pp. 226-227, Weeds of the Northeast)

      a similar species without purplish spots in the center of the leaves is called prostrate spurge

      it usually grows larger than spotted spurge (or at least as broad-spreading as spotted spurge or wider)

      also has milky sap when stems or leaves are broken, making it easy to distinguish from prostrate knotweed