Scientific Name: Euphorbia 'Charam'
Common Name: Redwing spurge
Family Name: Euphorbiaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Accent plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Spiraled, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Glaucous, Elliptic, Oblanceolate, Entire
Flowers: Cyathium, Yellow, Green-yellow, Mar-Apr
Fruit: Schizocarp, Brown, Jun-Jul
Key ID Features:
Shrub upright, 30-50cm tall; leaves sessile, tightly spiraled, most oblanceolate, most 4-7cm long x 0.5-2cm wide, blue-green, newly formed ones have red undersides; stems reddish tinge/topped; spikes dark red flower buds form in fall that open to reveal chartreuse cyathia Mar-Apr.