Graceful Spurge
Euphorbia hypericifolia
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Graceful Spurge
Identify Graceful Spurge by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm leaf margin: Entire (smooth edge).
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm flower colour: Green.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Euphorbiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Graceful Spurge.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Euphorbia hypericifolia
- Genus
- Euphorbia
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Open and dry localities
- Native to
- Pantropical
- Distribution
- Pantropical
- Found in India
- Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Puducherry, Punjab
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf margin
- Entire (smooth edge)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Graceful Spurge itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- GreenrecordedGreen or greenish
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Graceful Spurge itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Graceful Spurge
Graceful spurge (Euphorbia hypericifolia) belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka and 15 other states. It grows in open and dry localities. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Euphorbiaceae
Spurge/Euphorbia family
Graceful Spurge belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family.
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