Euphorbia maculata

TaxID: 216479

Basic Information

Euphorbia maculata

Milk Purslane, Spotted Spurge

Euphorbia maculata, known as spotted spurge, prostrate spurge (not to be confused with Euphorbia prostrata), milk purslane, or spotted sandmat, is a fast-growing annual plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is native to North America, where it is generally considered a common weed. It can be found in disturbed soils such as garden beds, along railroad tracks, and in the cracks of sidewalks. It has become a common introduced species throughout the world, including Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. It grows in sunny locations and a variety of soils, and functions as a pioneer species in ecological succession. The sap of this plant is a mild skin irritant and can cause a rash in some people. The milky sap of plants in genus Euphorbia is poisonous and considered carcinogenic.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Malpighiales

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbia

maculata

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Euphorbia maculata
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(c) Thomas Gyselinck@BY
Euphorbia maculata
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(c) Chalon Boesel@BY-NC
Euphorbia maculata
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(c) Nathan Taylor@BY-NC
Euphorbia maculata
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(c) Nathan Taylor@BY-NC
Euphorbia maculata
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(c) Douglas Goldman@BY-SA

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 (1 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Sri Lanka Quarantine pests —

Distribution (74 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_965112875.1 Scaffold 724 4295 37560 -

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR34068843 Leaf 80 DAF - 67859693 China:Jiangxi,Fuzhou

DNA Barcodes (31 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
WREP107-20 - rbcL 552 United States 2009-07-23 29.631, -98.149
WREP106-20 - rbcL 561 United States 2011-07-11 29.436, -98.073
WREP100-20 - rbcL 584 United States 2011-06-28 29.591118, -98.93048
WREP099-20 - rbcL 584 United States 2014-06-19 29.41325, -97.988266
WREP070-17 - rbcL 582 United States 2017-05-31 29.5636, -98.0618
VPSBC912-13 - rbcLa 552 Canada 2010-09-07 49.332, -117.664
SDH3482-15 - ITS2 332 United States 2014-04-16 33.29219, -117.31972
SDH1052-14 - ITS2 332 United States 1962-05-17 32.739, -117.148
PLWEL011-08 - rbcLa 552 Canada 2006-09-19 43.529, -80.229
NLFLM4422-16 - ITS 842 Netherlands 2013-08-30 51.347, 3.385
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Literature