| Scientific Name: | Euphorbia esula |
| Common Name: | green spurge, leafy spurge |
| Family Name: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal, Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Mixed shrub border, Rock garden, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Oblong, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Cyathium, Yellow, Green-yellow, Apr-May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, broadly linear to narrowly oblong, 3-9cm long x 3-8mm wide, with a slightly wavy margin; umbels with a basal pair of bright yellow-green petal-like bracts (appear in late spring, while the actual flowers do not develop until early summer); capsules 3 lobed, exploding when mature to release seeds several meters. | |