Index / Search / Euphorbia heterophylla
§1 Plant
Euphorbia heterophylla L.
vernacular Mexican fireplant — species · Euphorbiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Euphorbia
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
County-level range
· 114 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 114 counties across 9 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Columbia 12023
- DeSoto 12027
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Gadsden 12039
- Glades 12043
- Hamilton 12047
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Orange 12095
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- Suwannee 12121
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Concordia 22029
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/EUHE4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3064495 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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