Herbario Virtual del Mediterráneo Occidental
Àrea de Botànica, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Euphorbia serrata L.
Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
Genus : Euphorbia
Province distribution : Alicante. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castellón. Gerona. Lérida. Tarragona. Valencia.
Distribution in the islands : Cabrera. Formentera. Ibiza. Mallorca. Minorca.
General distribution : West Mediterranean
Flowering time : February. March. April. May. June. July.
Life-forms : Chameophyte.
Habitat : Cultivated fields, path and road sides.
IUCN Category : Poco preocupante
Characteristics : Euphorbia serrata has an enormous quantity of leaf shapes, ranging from linear and narrow to ovate and broad, but all of them have an irregularly serrated margin which is peculiar to the species (and which gives it its name). It is an evergreen spurge which lives in abandoned fields and along roadsides.
