Euphorbia dulcis Sweet Spurge

A tall, rhizomatous, perennial spurge which is native in much of Europe and was first recorded in the wild in Britain in 1848, presumably as a garden escape. It has become naturalised in scrubby areas, waysides, grassy banks and beside rivers and canals. Although widely distributed in Britain it has a thinly scattered distribution overall and is rather scarce in Wales. A small population occurs in a disturbed, scrubby area near the banks of the Neath Canal near Ynysbwllog, which is its only known site in West Glamorgan.

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