Euphorbia salicifoliaHost

WFO wfo-0000964532 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Euphorbia salicifolia, photographed by Dimitǎr Boevski
fig. a Dimitǎr Boevski, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 193350212
Euphorbia salicifolia, photographed by Dimitǎr Boevski
fig. b Dimitǎr Boevski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197393569
Euphorbia salicifolia, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. c Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15991189
Euphorbia salicifolia, photographed by Conrad Altmann
fig. d Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15991185
Euphorbia salicifolia, photographed by Dimitǎr Boevski
fig. e Dimitǎr Boevski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197393474
Euphorbia salicifolia, photographed by Dimitǎr Boevski
fig. f Dimitǎr Boevski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197393521

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 774214
Filed as
Euphorbia salicifolia Host
Det. by
Geltman, D.
Collected
Collector unknown
Origin
HU
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Euphorbia salicifolia is native: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Greece, Hungary, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaGreeceHungaryNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Euphorbia salicifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 88 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -6.0 °C -4.2 °C -3.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.8 °C 25.9 °C 27.3 °C
Annual rainfall 539 mm 598 mm 717 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 85 mm 100 mm 128 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 88 research-grade observations of Euphorbia salicifolia that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 10 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.

  • Euphorbia incana Schur
  • Euphorbia pallida Willd.
  • Euphorbia salicifolia f. pseudosalicifolia (Schur) Oudejans
  • Euphorbia salicifolia var. incana (Schur) Nyman
  • Euphorbia salicifolia var. legetima Schur
  • Euphorbia salicifolia var. pseudosalicifolia Schur
  • Euphorbia undulata Schweigg.
  • Galarhoeus salicifolius (Host) Haw.
  • Keraselma pallidum (Willd.) Raf.
  • Tithymalus salicifolius (Host) Klotzsch & Garcke

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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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