Species · genus Euphorbia · Euphorbiaceae

Cushion Spurge

Euphorbia epithymoides L.

Growth habit

perennial

Native range

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Türkiye, Ukraine

Reference · E. epithymoides

Cultivars of E. epithymoides

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under E. epithymoides yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Euphorbia epithymoides is a hardy herbaceous perennial from open, sunny, well-drained habitats across central and southeastern Europe. Give it strong light and gritty, fast-draining soil, and let the top two inches of mix dry fully before watering again. It tolerates dryness far better than soggy roots, so water sparingly and never leave it standing wet.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 9-16d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Direct sun

Water

≈ every 16 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

5–26 °C

Soil mix

Well-draining loamy mix for a clumping perennial

Propagation

Division in spring, or seed

Fertilizing

Light balanced feed once or twice in the growing season

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Bright acid-yellow bracts in spring

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Toxic to cats & dogs & humans

Euphorbiaceae produce an irritant milky latex that can harm skin, eyes, and mucous membranes if handled or ingested. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 9-16d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (family inference)

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