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10-06-2009, 09:26 PM
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I found this on sand dunes. Is it Sea Spurge or Petty Spurge? 
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10-06-2009, 10:05 PM
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Petty spurge (euphorbia peplus). |
11-06-2009, 06:11 AM
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Not Petty Spurge, Euphorbia peplus, which is a plant I know well. I don't recognise this one at all. 
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11-06-2009, 01:41 PM
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It could be broad-leaved spurge Euphorbia platyphyllos |
11-06-2009, 01:52 PM
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This sand dune plant seems to be a low- growing prostrate type fellow whereas Broad-leaved Spurge, which I have seen once, grows erect.
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11-06-2009, 02:03 PM
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Agreed...the photo I am comparing yours to (in the Gribbons and Brough book as I said in the PM) resembles your plant but it is not prostrate, and the text says 'erect'. I think it must be something else. |
11-06-2009, 02:45 PM
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I've looked through Stace's Flora and the new Vegetative Flora but nothing seems to fit Was there just one isolated plant KT or was there several and where exactly did you find it? Spotted Spurge, Euphorbia maculata, is the only spurge I can find which looks anything like.
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11-06-2009, 04:34 PM
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probably a stupid question but is it definately a spurge?
I don't know much about spurges so it probably is a dumb question
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11-06-2009, 04:56 PM
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not dumb at all, always question!
It sure looks like spurge, and is in my op either sun or petty spurge, cos of the arrangement of the oval leaves, but I cant tell whether the leaves are tooothed or not from the pic - toothed would be sun.
Not sea, not right appearance, too prostrate I think.
There are signs of yellow flowers, so sun would be closer I feel.
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11-06-2009, 05:15 PM
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It was definitely a spurge and it was growing quite erect, but the only problem was my poor angle on the photo and due to the fact it was throwing it down. It was in a sandy patch on a path. The spurge was actually in the sand, not in moss or any willow etc. | | | |
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