Toothed Spurge

(Euphorbia dentata Michx.)

Euphorbiaceae (Spurge Family)

▲ ▼ mature plants

▲ ▼ mature plants

▲ ▼ mature plants

▲ close-up of flowers, fruit

Toothed Spurge:  (pp. 292-293, Weeds of the Great Plains; not in Weeds of the Northeast)

·        summer annual plant with diamond-shaped leaves with toothed margins

·        leaves sometimes have purplish color or speckling on them

·        upright growing, usually well-branched, growing 6-24+” tall

·        greenish flowers at stem tips

·        has milky sap

·        found in cultivated fields, roadsides, gardens, non-crop areas