Weed of the Month – Wild Poinsettia / Desert Poinsettia
2021年8月23日 · This North American native plant is a relative of the popular holiday poinsettia. Both plants are members of the euphorbia family. This plant is sometimes grown for the colorful green and orange bracts, but it is considered a weed.
Guide to Growing Wild Poinsettia Plant in a Pot
2024年4月19日 · Wild poinsettias, also known as Euphorbia heterophylla, are beautiful red and green plants that can add a festive touch to your home or garden. While they are often associated with the holiday season, wild poinsettias can be …
Paintedleaf - Florida Wildflower Foundation
2021年12月24日 · Paintedleaf was previously known by the scientific name Poinsettia cyathophora. Other common names include Florida poinsettia, Wild poinsettia, Dwarf poinsettia and Fire-on-the-mountain. It is related to the common “Christmas” poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), which is indigenous to Mexico and bears larger, more striking red bracts.
Euphorbia cyathophora - North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant …
A member of the spurge family and a close cousin of our ever popular Poinsettia, Wild Poinsettia is a short-lived annual native to North and South America. Although it is cultivated for consumer use, it is considered a weed by many. Its natural habitat includes disturbed sites, waste areas, roadsides, creek banks and plantation cropland.
US Wildflower - Wild Poinsettia, Mexican Fireplant, Fire on the ...
Photographs and information about Wild Poinsettia, Mexican Fireplant, Fire on the Mountain, Painted Euphorbia, Desert Poinsettia - Euphorbia cyathophora Wildflowers of the United States Home
Euphorbia cyathophora - Native Plant Society of Texas
Colorful leaves make this a nice ornamental accent plant and filler. It tends to prefer a rocky, sandy soil, but it can adapt to a more fertile, medium moisture soil. Its natural habitat includes disturbed sites, waste areas, roadsides, creek banks.
Wild Poinsettias Can Grow Eight Feet Tall - Atlas Obscura
2017年12月21日 · In the wild, poinsettias can grow into a tall and rangy tree, up to eight feet tall, with blazing red leaves. It’s a dazzling plant, as its scientific name hints— Euphorbia pulcherrima, the...
Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS)
Painted-leaf, Wild Poinsettia Euphorbiaceae. Also known as Cyathophora picta, Poinsettia cyathophora. Plant Specifics
Wild Poinsettia | Walter Reeves: The Georgia Gardener
It has all the characteristics of a miniature poinsettia: shiny bright green stalks and stems; medium green, thin leaves, with wide serrations on the edges, and spaced sparsely along the stems. But the clincher was the little florets at the top of the stems, with fuzzy tiny yellow pollen-bearing nodules, surrounded by small, bright red leaflets ...
Texas Poinsettia | HortUpdate - November/December 2011
The Texas Poinsettia (Poinsettia cyathophora) is a small, wild poinsettia relative showing many of the characteristics of our ornamental Christmas poinsettia, and is annual in nature. In the dry garden it makes a charming and colorful patchwork of green, scalloped alternate leaves combined with a noticeable red blotch at the base of each of the ...