Euphorbia peplusL.

Petty Spurge

WFO wfo-0000963920 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Euphorbia peplus, photographed by Clare Edwards
fig. a Clare Edwards, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205488323
Euphorbia peplus, photographed by Attila Oláh
fig. b Attila Oláh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203210621
Euphorbia peplus, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. c Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202489900
Euphorbia peplus, photographed by Michele Jones
fig. d Michele Jones, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203249573
Euphorbia peplus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204979406
Euphorbia peplus, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. f Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200933723
Euphorbia peplus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. g Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201284526
Euphorbia peplus, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. h Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202501602

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Flowering n = 1,402 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,402 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 34 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Esula minima Haw.
  • Esula peploides Fourr.
  • Esula peplus (L.) Haw.
  • Esula rotundifolia (Lam.) Gray
  • Euphorbia calabrica Huter, Porta & Rigo
  • Euphorbia chamaepeploides Lotsy
  • Euphorbia minima (Haw.) Mart.
  • Euphorbia moehringioides Pax
  • Euphorbia oleracea Pers.
  • Euphorbia peploides Gouan
  • Euphorbia peplus f. peploides (Gouan) Knoche
  • Euphorbia peplus subsp. peploides (Gouan) Ball
  • Euphorbia peplus var. amponitana Sennen
  • Euphorbia peplus var. maritima Boiss.
  • Euphorbia peplus var. minor Willd.
  • Euphorbia peplus var. peploides (Gouan) Vis.
  • Euphorbia peplus var. tricuspidata Fredr.
  • Euphorbia pusilla Lag.
  • Euphorbia pusillima Post
  • Euphorbia rotundifolia (Lam.) Loisel.
  • Euphorbion peplum (L.) St.-Lag.
  • Galarhoeus peplus (L.) Prokh.
  • Galarhoeus peplus (L.) Haw. ex Rydb.
  • Keraselma oleraceum (Pers.) Raf.

and 10 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.