| Scientific Name: | Euphorbia myrsinites |
| Common Name: | myrtle spurge, donkey-tail spurge |
| Family Name: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Invasive plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Irregular, Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Container planting, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Rock garden |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Spiraled, Sessile, Leathery, Succulent, Glabrous, Glaucous, Obovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyathium, Yellow, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Green, Brown, May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Prostate spurge; leaves spiralled, most obovate, 3-4cm long x 1-2cm wide, silvery to bluish-green, apex pointed; cyathia with yellow bracts, Mar-Apr. | |