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caper spurge
Euphorbia lathyris
Euphorbia lathyris, the caper spurge or paper spurge, is a species of spurge native to southern Europe (France, Italy, Greece, northwest Africa, and eastward through southwest Asia to western China.
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
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.101
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.102
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.101
Garden of Health
1507 · p.78
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.489
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.487
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.363
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.713
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.392
Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms: Herbs and Trees, Volume 5
王圻, 王思義 · 1609 · p.10
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.99
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Euphorbia lathyris 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 77114.