cliff spurge

English

The leaves and fruits of cliff spurge (Euphorbia misera)

cliff spurge (Euphorbia misera)

Etymology

Named for its habitat on the coastal cliffs of California and western Mexico.

Noun

cliff spurge (uncountable)

1. A type of drought-deciduous shrub native to Baja California, of species Euphorbia misera.
   • 1991, Clean Water Program for Greater San Diego, Secondary Treatment System, Associated Sludge Management Facilities, Joint EIR/EIS D(2v); Technical Appendix, Secondary Treatment System: Environmental Impact Statement, page 12:

     The expansion of the Point Loma treatment plant would have long-term significant impacts to 10.2 acres of maritime succulent scrub, including losses of individuals to populations of San Diego barrel cactus, snake cholla, and cliff spurge on Point Loma.

   • 1995, Michelle A. Gilders, Reflections of a Whale-watcher, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 77:

     Our trail came out to a cliff top, and we sat and ate lunch while watching the elephant seals on the beach below. Tiny yellow rock daises took hold in the slip scree, along with some of the frankenia and cliff spurge, and in the rock pools below an American oystercatcher picked its way between boulders, both granite and living.

   • 2006 March 2, Richard G. Beidleman, California's Frontier Naturalists, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 211:

     Along the ocean near San Diego he collected Cliff Spurge, today listed as rare in the area, and in the dry plains around San Diego now covered by suburbia, he found large tracts of tarweed  […]

Hypernyms

• spurge, euphorbia, malvid, fabid, rosid, eudicot, angiosperm, tracheophyte, plant

Translations

Euphorbia misera

• Translingual: Euphorbia misera

References

• cliff spurge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Euphorbia misera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Euphorbia misera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons