Meaning of spotted spurge | Babel Free

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1. A prostrate, annual spurge, native to North America and an invasive species throughout the rest of the world, of species Euphorbia maculata.
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2. An erect, annual spurge, native to North and Central America and an invasive species in Europe, Japan, and New Zealand, of species Euphorbia nutans.
   uncountable

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“Spotted spurge can grow⟳ well in slightly dry, gravelly, or sandy soils. It doesn't grow⟳ in shade; therefore, the dense canopy of an intensively planted garden bed helps inhibit growth of any spotted spurge that germinates later in the season.”

“One always thinks of the plant⟳ as a companion of the pursley, but pursley can be eaten by man, and hogs thrive on it. Nothing eats spotted spurge. The spurges are all poisonous to a greater or less degree, and this one is fit only to hoe into the ground where it soon mixes forever with the elements, and where the cultivated plants soon send⟳ their roots abroad to pierce its mould.”

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