| Scientific Name: | Euphorbia characias |
| Common Name: | Mediterranean spurge |
| Family Name: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Specimen plant, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Spiraled, Succulent, Glabrous, Glaucous, Oblanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyathium, Yellow, Green, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Green, Brown, May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Groups of thick basal stems, when broken, plant exudes white sap that may irritates skin; leaves spiralled, most oblanceolate, 6-9cm long x 1-2cm wide, grey-green, smell like coffee; raceme-like inflorescence with 30-50 cyathia, yellow-green bracts, Mar-Apr. | |