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Sun spurge
Euphorbia helioscopia
Euphorbia helioscopia (sun spurge) is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. It is a herbaceous annual plant, native to most of Europe, northern Africa, and eastward through most of Asia.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.83
Famine Relief Herbal
Zhu Su · 1406 · p.61
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.845
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.843
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1425
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1496
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.383
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 23)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.31
Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration
Xu Guangqi · 1909 · p.640
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Euphorbia helioscopia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56292.