Weeds of Wednesday: Paintedleaf

Paintedleaf, fire-on-the-mountain, painted spurge, and wild poinsettia are among the common named given to the native, but weedy, spurge now ascribed the botanical name Euphorbia cyanthophora. Spurges belong to the family Euphorbiaceae, a very large and diverse plant family with…

Tiny, tiny native poinsettia

Poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) are native to central America.  More than 70 million poinsettias are sold at Christmastime in the the U..S. with a value of more than $250 million. Florida is home to 2 small native "poinsettias", plants in the…