1284 Euphorbia peplus L.

This species originates from the Mediterranean region. It has then spread as a weed to several parts of the world, for instance S. Africa, Japan, N. and S. America, Australia and New Zealand. Nowadays it has a discontinuous circumpolar distribution (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 256 and map 247). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1978, map p. 271.