Today’s Featured Flower Photo of the Day: Cypress Spurge (on the Field)

Here is today’s featured photo flower presentation. To let this year shine bright, I am featuring fine photos of flowers, continuing to honor the brighter side of life again this year. Today’s Flower of the day is Cypress Spurge (on the Field).

Cypress Spurge, or Euphorbia Cyparissias is native to Eurasia, and is an an invasive grassland plant that presents itself to a whole field within only a modest amount of time, sometimes seeming to be “just there”, invading open disturbed areas such as fields, pastures, agricultural land, roadsides, and yards. It is toxic to livestock so infestations reduce the forage value of pastures and contaminates hayfields. The white, milky sap can be irritating to skin, and should be avoided. It can form huge infestations displacing native vegetation. Cypress Spurge is native to Europe and western Asia. It was first introduced into the United States in the mid-1800s as being ornamental. Although it is in itself as being a meadow of beautiful yellow to yellow-green, inconspicuous flowers (maturing to red flowers) in the cyme at the top of the plants in late spring to early summer, growing up to 12 inches tall, as a herbaceous, perennial plant. All parts of the plant exude a white, milky sap when broken. As far as foliage, the leaves are small, up to 1 inch long. The leaves are numerous, alternate or whorled, bright green, and linear in shape. Obviously, because they show up in the open field, the thrive on the open all-day sun, preferring Sun–but tolerate shade as well. Most  of the time, the fields are cleared and wanted vegetation replacing Cypress Spurge, because Cypress Spurge is toxic to vegetation and livestock. Cypress Spurge can be found growing in open, disturbed sites like meadows, pastures, and roadsides. It grows quickly and aggressively, releasing chemicals from its roots which stop other plants growing near it, helping it crowd out any native species.

Photo #1 taken with a Samsung Galaxy A71 with the factory Quad camera Standard-wide: 64 MP 1/1.72-inch sensor with 0.8µm pixels and 26 mm-equivalent f/1.8 PDAF lens Ultra-wide: 12 MP sensor with f/2.2 aperture lens.

Photo #2 taken with a Samsung Galaxy A71 with the factory Quad camera Standard-wide: 64 MP 1/1.72-inch sensor with 0.8µm pixels and 26 mm-equivalent f/1.8 PDAF lens Ultra-wide: 12 MP sensor with f/2.2 aperture lens.

Photo #3 taken with a Samsung Galaxy A71 with the factory Quad camera Standard-wide: 64 MP 1/1.72-inch sensor with 0.8µm pixels and 26 mm-equivalent f/1.8 PDAF lens Ultra-wide: 12 MP sensor with f/2.2 aperture lens.

Photo #4 taken with a Samsung Galaxy A71 with the factory Quad camera Standard-wide: 64 MP 1/1.72-inch sensor with 0.8µm pixels and 26 mm-equivalent f/1.8 PDAF lens Ultra-wide: 12 MP sensor with f/2.2 aperture lens.

Photo #5 taken with a Samsung Galaxy A71 with the factory Quad camera Standard-wide: 64 MP 1/1.72-inch sensor with 0.8µm pixels and 26 mm-equivalent f/1.8 PDAF lens Ultra-wide: 12 MP sensor with f/2.2 aperture lens.

Photo #6 taken with a Samsung Galaxy A71 with the factory Quad camera Standard-wide: 64 MP 1/1.72-inch sensor with 0.8µm pixels and 26 mm-equivalent f/1.8 PDAF lens Ultra-wide: 12 MP sensor with f/2.2 aperture lens.

Photo #7 taken with a Samsung Galaxy A71 with the factory Quad camera Standard-wide: 64 MP 1/1.72-inch sensor with 0.8µm pixels and 26 mm-equivalent f/1.8 PDAF lens Ultra-wide: 12 MP sensor with f/2.2 aperture lens.

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