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|accepted_name=Euphorbia myrsinites
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 461. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Myrtle or creeping or blue spurge;donkey tail
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tithymalus myrsinites
|authority=(Linnaeus) Hill
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Euphorbia;Euphorbia subg. Esula;Euphorbia myrsinites
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Euphorbiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Euphorbia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Euphorbia subg. Esula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Euphorbia myrsinites]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 294, 295, 296
|treatment_page=page 305
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> usually perennial, occasionally biennial, with taproot. <b>Stems</b> erect or semiprostrate, unbranched or branched, 15–40 cm, succulent, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 0–2 mm; blade obovate, obovate-oblong, lanceolate, orbiculate, or suborbiculate, 2–30 × 3–17 mm, fleshy, base truncate or attenuate, margins entire or finely denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, cuspidate or strongly mucronate, surfaces glabrous; venation and midvein inconspicuous. <b>Cyathial</b> arrangement: terminal pleiochasial branches 2–12, each 1–2 times 2-branched; pleiochasial bracts similar in shape and size to distal leaves; dichasial bracts distinct, suborbiculate or reniform, base truncate, margins entire or minutely denticulate, apex obtuse, mucronulate; axillary cymose branches 0–4. <b>Cyathia</b>: peduncle 0.5–1 mm. <b>Involucre</b> campanulate, 2.4–2.6 × 2.3–2.5 mm, glabrous; glands 4, trapezoidal, 1–1.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm; horns divergent, thick, tips rounded, dilated, 0.5–0.9 mm. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 6–12. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary glabrous; styles 2.5–2.8 mm, usually unbranched. <b>Capsules</b> subglobose, 5–7 × 5–6 mm, unlobed; cocci rounded to subangular, smooth, glabrous; columella 4.5–5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> brownish to grayish, oblong, 2.8–4.5 × 2–3.2 mm, vermiculate-rugose; caruncle substipitate, trapezoidal or mushroom-shaped, 1.3–1.5 × 0.6–0.8 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Scrub oak communities, open ground near forests, shrub-steppes.
|elevation=0–2400 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;s Europe;w Asia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Euphorbia myrsinites</i> is cultivated in much of the flora area, where it can tolerate cold winters. In some areas, it can locally escape from cultivation.</p>
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name=Euphorbia myrsinites
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Tithymalus myrsinites
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting spring–summer.
|habitat=Scrub oak communities, open ground near forests, shrub-steppes.
|elevation=0–2400 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;s Europe;w Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_97.xml
|genus=Euphorbia
|subgenus=Euphorbia subg. Esula
|species=Euphorbia myrsinites
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