Irish wildflowers sitemap

Photos: Micheal McGahon, Sligo

Caper Spurge Euphorbia lathyris Family: Euphorbiaceae Flowering: June-July. Biennial. Introduced. Garden escape. Flowering umbels with 2-6 main rays. Bright-green oval-triangular bracts, pointed. Smooth seed capsules with brown or grey seeds. Blue-green leaves un-toothed, un-stalked, opposite. Linear-oblong. Hairless. Erect growth habit. Height: To 1.5m. Very poisonous! Disturbed ground, wasteland, gardens, open woodland. Garden escape or relic of cultivation.

     


     
Photographs above: Caper Spurge, Macroom, County Cork. September 2008