Anyone who has taken a long road trip or bike ride has used a product of the spurge plant family—rubber. The spurge family, or Euphorbiaceae, includes economically valuable plants like the rubber tree ...

As gardens start to bloom again with the arrival of spring, officials are asking for the public’s help in not continuing to introduce a monster. Myrtle spurge has been turning up in abundance, ...

This profile of spurge laurel is another in a series on invasive plants from the City Green blog by the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services. Spurge laurel is neither a spurge nor a laurel, and ...

It’s time to purge your spurge. Delicate yellow flowers atop tall spindly greenery have made myrtle spurge and cypress spurge popular for rock gardens and xeriscaped yards. But these ornamental plants ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using sheep to control leafy spurge works best if it's done in the spring every year, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study. After a few years of sheep grazing ...

The Invasive Species Council of B.C. (ISCBC) is warning residents of a plant that looks pretty but is harmful. Myrtle spurge is described as a garden perennial that likes dry, disturbed soils and ...

Resin spurge is the common name for an exotic plant called euphorbia resinifera, a cactus-like plant grown in Morocco. And rather than being an exotic disease — which it may phonetically conjure — it ...

I've always liked donkey-tail spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites). An easy-care trailing plant with tight spirals of gray-green leaves that remain attractive year-round, it also has attractive yellow ...

Millie highlights a tough, sculptural plant that she loves to grow in her cool-climate garden. It’s Gopher spurge (Euphorbia rigida), which tolerates a really hot spot in the garden as well as partly ...

Using sheep to control leafy spurge works best if it's done in the spring every year, according to a new study. Using sheep to control leafy spurge works best if it's done in the spring every year, ...

Newly identified plant fossils found in Argentina suggest that a group of spurges long thought to have Asian origins may have first appeared in Gondwanan South America. Anyone who has taken a long ...

Climatic and continental changes likely drove a well-known group of spurge plants out of southern South America to southeast Asia and beyond, as evidenced by newly identified fossils found in ...