Wood Spurge
Scientific name: Euphorbia amygdaloides L.
Diagnostic features
Pubescent, tufted or rhizomatous perennial.
Stems biennial, with inflorescences arising from tops in 2nd year, to 90cm.
Leaves of first-year stems obovate to oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, tapered to base, entire.
Capsule smooth or minutely punctate, glabrous.
Seeds smooth.
This species is keyed out on Page 2081 in the Text Key.
Key to the subspecies:
a. Rhizomes short or absent; leaves of 1st-year stems herbaceous, dull, pale- to mid-green, pubescent on lowerside and margins.
............................ Euphorbia amygdaloides amygdaloides.
b. Rhizomes long; leaves of 1st-year stems ± coriaceous, ± shiny, dark green, ± glabrous.
............................ Euphorbia amygdaloides robbiae.
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