FARGO — Last year, my family instituted a new tradition — spraycation. During the last week of June, we all simultaneously take a week of PTO to help my Dad battle the bane of his 90-odd years of ...

Noticing a weed I have probably seen often but never identified, I took a picture and examined it. Although there are at least five genus of spurge, I recognized the prostrate spurge (Euphorbia ...

Spurge can be the scourge of many households. It is an aggressive and fast-spreading weed that grows widely. Spurge commonly invades lawns - it also attacks flower beds, driveways, and more - and can ...

AMERICAN FORK, Utah — Parents of a boy in American Fork are cautioning others when it comes to plants and removing them after their son received blisters and rashes from exposure to the sap from an ...

Myrtle spurge is an invasive plant that can be found throughout Boise’s lower Foothills and along popular trails. It’s a succulent-like Mediterranean plant sometimes used as decorative landscaping in ...

Spotted spurge (Euphorbia maculata) is an annual prostrate plant in the spurge family. It grows close to the ground and forms a dense mat of vegetation invading gardens, cultivated agricultural areas, ...

Climatic and continental changes likely drove a well-known group of spurge plants out of southern South America to southeast Asia and beyond, as evidenced by newly identified fossils found in ...

Q: I love Pride of Houston yaupon hollies, but I don’t live in Houston. Is there a similar variety for my city and its soils? A: Don’t be concerned by that variety’s name. Pride of Houston will grow ...

Newly identified plant fossils found in Argentina suggest that a group of spurges long thought to have Asian origins may have first appeared in Gondwanan South America. Anyone who has taken a long ...