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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- South Dakota State University Extension and the South Dakota Department of Agriculture encourage landowners to collect and redistribute leafy spurge beetles in their pastures. "With ...

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 ...

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 ...

North Greene Street at the north end of the campus. (1810 N. Greene St.) When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday and Friday Ever heard of euphorbia plants? Of course you have, if you’ve ever purchased a ...

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 ...