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| name = ''Euphorbia helioscopia''<br />
| image = Euphorbia helioscopia2.jpg<br />
| image_width = 225px<br />
| image_caption = Flowers and immature fruit<br />
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae<br />
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]<br />
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]<br />
| ordo = [[Malpighiales]]<br />
| familia = [[Euphorbiaceae]]<br />
| genus = [[Euphorbia]]<br />
| species = '''''E. helioscopia'''''<br />
| binomial = ''Euphorbia helioscopia''<br />
| binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]<!-- 1753 --><br />
}}<br />
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'''''Euphorbia helioscopia''''' ('''Sun Spurge''') is a species of [[spurge]] native to most of [[Europe]], northern [[Africa]], and eastward through most of [[Asia]].<ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?16373 ''Euphorbia helioscopia'']</ref><ref name=flora>''Flora Europaea'': [http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Euphorbia+&SPECIES_XREF=helioscopia&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= ''Euphorbia helioscopia'']</ref><ref name=blamey>Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). ''Flora of Britain and Northern Europe''. ISBN 0-340-40170-2</ref><br />
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It is an [[annual plant]] growing in [[arable land]] and disturbed ground. It grows to 10–50 cm tall, with a single, erect, hairless stem, branching toward the top. The [[leaf|leaves]] are oval, broadest near the tip, 1.5-3 cm long, with a finely toothed margin. The [[flower]]s are small, yellow-green, with two to five basal [[bract]]s similar to the leaves but yellower; flowering lasts from mid spring to late summer.<ref name=blamey/><ref name=malta>Malta Wild Plants [http://www.maltawildplants.com/EUPH/Euphorbia_helioscopia.html ''Euphorbia helioscopia'']</ref><br />
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It is highly poisonous. Active ingredients are extracted from it for use in pharmaceutical industry. <br />
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Other old folk names include wart spurge, umbrella milkweed and "madwoman's milk".<ref name=malta/><br />
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