| Scientific Name: | Euphorbia cyparissias |
| Common Name: | cypress spurge |
| Family Name: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal, Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Group or mass planting |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Spiraled, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyathium, Yellow, Red, Apr-May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Green, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, narrow and resemble a small cypress tree, bluish-green, linear, most 1-3cm long x 1-3mm wide, glabrous; cyathia with lime green oval to heart-shaped bracts, in umbel-like clusters. | |