Euphorbia helioscopia

TaxID: 154990

Basic Information

Euphorbia helioscopia

Madwoman's Milk, Sun Spurge

Euphorbia helioscopia, the sun spurge or madwoman's milk, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. It is a herbaceous annual plant, native to most of Europe, northern Africa, and eastward through most of Asia. Additional folk names include wart spurge, summer spurge, umbrella milkweed, and wolf's-milk.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Malpighiales

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbia

helioscopia

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Euphorbia helioscopia
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(c) Roland Godon@BY
Euphorbia helioscopia
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(c) Atalay Karakuş@BY
Euphorbia helioscopia
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(c) Eddi Bisulli@BY-NC
Euphorbia helioscopia
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(c) portioid@BY
Euphorbia helioscopia
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(c) Bastián Soza A.@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (5 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Brazil A1 list 2018
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
Sri Lanka Quarantine pests —
Mexico Quarantine pests 2018
Peru Absent —

Distribution (83 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Andorra Present —
Argentina Present —
Armenia Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (35 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
VPSBC916-13 - rbcLa 552 Canada 2006-08-26 49.119, -123.132
VPL117-13 - rbcL 553 Luxembourg 2012-06-11 49.766, 5.889
VEMSH182-13 - rbcLa 501 Canada 2012-06-07 45.535, -73.149
UMAAI069-22 - rbcLa 553 France 2021-06-14 -
UGEAB004-16 - rbcL 568 Switzerland 2016-04-15 46.222244, 6.142363
SAFH3980-12 - rbcLa 552 South Africa 2011-10-07 -26.7102, 27.10573
POWNA1717-12 - rbcL 542 United Kingdom 2011-05-30 51.523594, -3.197741
POWNA1469-12 - rbcL 542 United Kingdom 1975-09-10 51.4804, -3.17479
PNOR1465-18 - rbcLa 1449 Norway 1987-08-31 66.3415, 12.733
PLNIA058-08 - rbcLa 552 Canada 2007-10-10 43.093, -79.262
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Literature