Flora of Israel: Spotted Spurge
Euphorbia maculata, Euphorbia nutans,Spotted Spurge, Chamaesyce maculata,
Hebrew: חלבלוב נטוי, Arabic: الفربيون المموج
| Scientific name: | Euphorbia maculata L. | |
| Synonym name: | Euphorbia nutans Lag. | |
| Common name: | Spotted Spurge, Chamaesyce maculata | |
| Hebrew name: | חלבלוב נטוי | |
| Arabic name: | الفربيون المموج | |
| Plant Family: | Euphorbiaceae, חלבלוביים |
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| Life form: | Annual | |
| Stems: | Up to 45cm long, 30cm tall, herbaceous, erect to ascending or reclining, branching, sparse pubescent, with milky sap, typically becoming red in strong sun | |
| Leaves: | Opposite, entire, dentate or serrate | |
| Inflorescence: | Single axillary cyathia | |
| Flowers: | Green; white petaloid appendage and greenish gland extending from the rim of cyathium; ovary of the female flower covered with hairs | |
| Fruits / pods: | Capsule 3-sided, 3-locular, glabrous; one seed per locule | |
| Flowering Period: | August, September | |
| Habitat: | Cultivared weeds | |
| Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Shrub-steppes | |
| Chorotype: | American | |
| Summer shedding: | Ephemeral |
 Derivation of the botanical name: Euphorbia, Εὔφορβος, Euphorbus, after the Numidian physician Euphorbus, physician to Juba II, King of Numidia and Mauretania, about the end of the first century BCE. In classical Greek ευφορβοσ (euphorbos) means well fed.
maculata, maculo, to spot, stain, pollute, defile; spotted.
Inflorescence definition Cyathium: a cup-shaped involucre bearing several minute stamens (male flowers) and a pistillate flower consisting of an ovary on a long stalk (pedicel). The rim of the cyathium often bears one or more nectar glands and petaloid appendages; this feature is present in every species of the genus Euphorbia but nowhere else in the plantkingdom.  |