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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Euphorbia peplis''
| image = Nsr-slika-124.png
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Malpighiales]]
| familia = [[Euphorbiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Euphorbia]]''
| species = '''''E. peplis'''''
| binomial = ''Euphorbia peplis''
| binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
}}

'''''Euphorbia peplis''''' ('''Purple Spurge''') is a species of ''[[Euphorbia]]'', native to southern and western [[Europe]], northern [[Africa]], and southwestern [[Asia]], where it typically grows on [[coast]]al sand and shingle.<ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?16395 ''Euphorbia peplis'']</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=peplis&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= ''Euphorbia peplis'']</ref><ref name="blamey">Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). ''Flora of Britain and Northern Europe''. ISBN 0-340-40170-2</ref>

It should not be confused with the similarly spelled ''[[Euphorbia peplus]]'' (Petty Spurge), a common weed.

It is a small, prostrate [[annual plant]], the stems growing to 10-20 cm long, typically with four stems from the base. The [[leaf|leaves]] are opposite, oval, 1-2 cm long, grey-green with reddish-purple veins.<ref name="blamey"/>

At the northern edge of its range in [[England]], it has always been rare, and is now [[extinct]].<ref name="blamey"/><ref name="pearman">Pearman, D. A. & Preston, C. D. (2002). The last British record of Euphorbia peplis. ''BSBI News'' 91: 25.</ref>

==References==
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