I discovered this plant in my woodland edge this spring. Haven't seen it before. I have just a few plants but after reading this will be pulling it.

Had this in my garden for at least 10 years. It's in part shade spot, mesic soil. The "colony" is small and hasn't spread one bit in all this time. I don't see the point in removing it since it's not at all aggressive here. (Am removing the garlic mustard though!)

I have had this in my garden for several years. It was given to me by the tender of our town's community garden, who was thinning her patch. It spreads a lot, and I have shared it with friends, as I have thinned it. It's lovely, and I am very fond of it. I have had no trouble controlling it, simply by thinning it annually.

I just want to ask gardeners, who cultivate weeds like Cypress spurge, if your control measures extend to the roadsides and woodland edges where this species transplants itself? If not, then I think your vision is too narrowly focused on your own garden and the belief that you can keep an invasive species confined. Plants spread by wind, water and critters, over which you have no control. While not as serious a problem as its cousin leafy spurge, Cypress spurge is still a plant I find in far too many natural areas where it does not belong. I ask that you look beyond your own yard to the bigger picture.

my neighbor at the end of the street has a huge patch in the front yard and now i am seeing it in my yard - didn't know it to be characterized as noxious. Should I eradicate then? Is it beneficial to wildlife in anyway or more damaging? Thanks

I have not read anything that indicates Cypress spurge has any benefit whatsoever to wildlife. It is well documented, however, that bruised or broken stems exude a milky sap that is irritating to the skin and especially the eyes. I wouldn't want it in my yard. It is as weedy as a dandelion.

a neighbor on my street has a front yard full of this. It now has turned up in my front yard rain garden sending roots more than 10 inches underground by which it invaded many of my native plants and into the lawn...nearly impossible to get rid of it you don't dig down deep enough and remove all the roots. Like a dandelion but insidious because you don't see where the root runners have spread to until they send up new shoots sometimes 2 feets away. Invasive!

Spotted them in the woods ona trail near Ojibwe Lake.

This is just a word of caution - one of my clients inherited a garden infested with cypress spurge. Having developed a love (for her garden) hate (for the spurge) relationship, she built herself a sieve and proceeded to dig up and sieve all the soil (4-5 feet deep) in the infested portion of her garden. She sat in the dirt while she toiled and before long, she developed a severe dermal reaction across her backside - even through her pants - from the plant sap that was in the soil.

This is coming up in an old farm field along my driveway. So pretty and was fun looking it up on this site. Too bad I have to get rid of it. Sounds very undesirable! And I don't want it invading my prairie restoration project.

Be VERY CAREFUL with this plant! I developed an allergic reaction when pruning without gloves, while trying to eliminate love-vine which was entangled in the Euphorbia; the milky latex caused severe irritation to my eyes, also developed swollen irritated rash on face.

Quite prolific in the roadside ditches in central Crow Wing

Large quantities of it, roadside, in Merrifield along Cty Rd 3 between the Half moon corner and Cty Rd 116 on the east side of the road.