Though I would rather write about flowers and trees, sometimes a weed really needs to be brought to your attention. Leafy ...

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 ...

Spurge weed (Euphorbia) is a native annual indigenous to the eastern U.S., but found in many parts of the country. And although we often associate growing native plants with being the more ...

Myrtle spurge is an invasive plant that can be found throughout Boise’s lower Foothills and along popular trails. It’s a succulent-like Mediterranean plant sometimes used as decorative landscaping in ...

When Mike and Clarissa Tofel saw their twin daughters playing in some pretty yellow flowers in their yard, they thought nothing of it. They'd moved into the house the previous November, and in the ...

When you think of lawn weeds, common ones, like crabgrass or spurge weed, first come to mind. however, there is one invasive ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You’ve probably seen the ad — bag up any myrtle spurge you find on your property, bring it to one of the “purge the spurge” events and Denver Parks and ...

Noticing a weed I have probably seen often but never identified, I took a picture and examined it. Although there are at least five genus of spurge, I recognized the prostrate spurge (Euphorbia ...

Q: I am 99 percent sure I've got spotted spurge both in my garden beds and lawn. I've been pulling it and spraying it with Roundup in beds. But in the grass... should I apply a pre-emergent in the ...

Q: I have some low weeds (spurge?) that are slowly taking over my tiff-green lawn. They are easy to kill in the gravel but what can I do about the lawn? Would something like Weed-B-Gone work and not ...

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Q: I have a beautiful lawn that has been invaded by spurge. I’m not sure how it got there, but I would really like to get rid of it. What do you recommend? A: Spotted spurge (Euphorbia maculata) is a ...