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  • COMMON NAME: Dove milk
  • ARABIC: أم الحليب
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Euphorbia hirta L.
  • SYNONYMS: E. pilulifera L.
  • FAMILY: EUPHORBIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:101651-2/images
Annual, 20-40 cm high, villous herb, with erect or ascending, simple stems; hairs multicellular, yellowish. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, denticulate, acute, unequal at base, 2-3 cm long, 1-2 cm broad. Stipules very small, fringed. Cyathia in dense, terminal or lateral clusters, sessile or subsessile. Glands orbiculate, with very small appendix. Capsule about 2 mm across, with somewhat angular lobes, adpressed-hairy. Seeds minute, quadr-angular, irregularly reticulate-rugose, reddish-brown. Flowering from October to February.
Weed in fields, gardens and roadsides.
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