Ornamental kales and cabbages have become a winter garden staple—with the bold, colorful heads looking almost like flowers.

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 ...

Noticing a weed I have probably seen often but never identified, I took a picture and examined it. Although there are at least five genus of spurge, I recognized the prostrate spurge (Euphorbia ...

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 ...

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 ...

Myrtle spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites) is a low growing perennial with trailing fleshy stems. Introduced from Eurasia as an ornamental in xeriscape gardens, myrtle spurge is highly competitive and ...

My Santa Fe neighborhood it being taken over by a noxious weed called myrtle spurge. It is an “escaped ornamental” originally from Southern Europe and Central Asia. It was brought to the U.S. because ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Christina Hesley’s daughter once had a bad reaction to myrtle spurge. “My daughter was playing with a friend in a neighbor's yard and she just broke out in a hive-type rash pretty ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- The cooler-than-normal spring temperatures will most likely delay normal emergence of leafy spurge flea beetles, which is a bio-control agent because their life cycle is based on ...

The Whitehall Project will be collecting leafy spurge-eating insects (several species of the leafy spurge flea beetle Aphthona) and making them available to the public. If you would like some of these ...

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 ...