Vascular Plant Herbarium

Vascular Plant Database Genus Results

Category: Dicots
Family Name: Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbia - [maps | photos]

• Euphorbia commutata Engelm.
  NWI TN: Facultative Upland
  Common Name: tinted woodland spurge

• Euphorbia corollata L.
  Common Name: flowering spurge
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         • Euphorbia zinniiflora Small

• Euphorbia cyathophora Murr.
  Common Name: fire on the mountain
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         • Euphorbia heterophylla L.

• Euphorbia cyparissias * L.
  Common Name: cypress spurge

• Euphorbia davidii * Subils
  Common Name: David's spurge

• Euphorbia dentata Michx.
  Common Name: toothed spurge

• Euphorbia falcata * L.
  Common Name: sickle spurge

• Euphorbia glyptosperma Engelm.
  Common Name: ribseed sandmat
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         • Chamaesyce glyptosperma (Engelm.) Small

• Euphorbia helioscopia * L.
  Common Name: madwoman's milk

• Euphorbia humistrata * Engelm.
  NWI TN: Facultative Wetland
  Common Name: spreading sandmat
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         • Chamaesyce humistrata (Engelm.) Small

• Euphorbia lathyris * L.
  Common Name: mole plant

• Euphorbia maculata L.
  NWI TN: Facultative Upland
  Common Name: spotted sandmat
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         • Chamaesyce maculata (L.) Small

         • Euphorbia supina Raf.

• Euphorbia marginata * Pursh
  NWI TN: Obligate Upland
  Common Name: snow on the mountain

• Euphorbia mercurialina Michx.
  Common Name: mercury spurge

• Euphorbia nutans Lag.
  NWI TN: Facultative Upland
  Common Name: eyebane
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         • Euphorbia preslii Guss.

         • Chamaesyce nutans (Lag.) Small

• Euphorbia ouachitana Mayfield
  NWI TN: Facultative Upland

• Euphorbia peplus * L.
  Common Name: petty spurge

• Euphorbia platyphyllos * L.
  Common Name: broadleaf spurge

• Euphorbia prostrata * Aiton
  Common Name: prostrate sandmat
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         • Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small

• Euphorbia pubentissima Michx.
  Common Name: false flowering spurge

• Euphorbia serpens Kunth
  NWI TN: Facultative +
  Common Name: matted sandmat
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         • Chamaesyce serpens (Kunth) Small

• Euphorbia spathulata Lam.
  NWI TN: Facultative
  Common Name: warty spurge
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         • Euphorbia dictyosperma Fisch. & C.A. Mey.

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*Non-native taxon known to be naturalized in Tennessee

All names & statuses follow the Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee (2015).
Click here for a description of rare, threatened, or endangered (RTE) status & National Wetland Indicator (NWI) status.

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