The phrase "a spurge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a type of plant belonging to the Euphorbiaceae family, often used in gardening or botanical contexts.
Example: "In my garden, I have planted a spurge that adds a vibrant touch to the landscape."
Alternatives: "a euphorbia" or "a milkweed".
A leafy spurge SAND family gene was used as a reference; this gene was verified to be stably expressed during seed and bud development [ 38].
"In Mexico, we have a little spurge, but nothing like this.
Sequences from a leafy spurge EST database [ 96] were used for designing primer pairs using the Primer-Select of Lasergene 8 software program (DNASTAR, Inc., Madison, WI).
Although all 201 primer pairs were designed based on sequences obtained from a leafy spurge EST-database (for details, see M & M), the possibility exists for different paralogues and alleles of target genes being amplified by a given primer pair.
Primer pairs (20 24 nucleotides) were designed using Lasergene (DNASTAR, Inc., Madison, WI) sequence analysis software from 201 clones annotated to genes based on sequences obtained from a leafy spurge EST-database [ 36].
Although overexpressing CYP79B2 in Arabidopsis results in increased levels of free auxin [ 35], in this study, auxin levels were increased (Fig. 3) even though transcript abundance for a leafy spurge homolog of CYP79B2 (of the IAOX pathway) was significantly decreased (−4.59 log2-fold; Table 1).
If you see this sap you've encountered a spotted spurge plant.
Q. Deer will eat almost anything planted in our Westchester neighborhood, except yellow-flowered Euphorbia (spurge), a ground cover spreading quickly across a neighbor's yard.
Another is set against the lacerating acid-yellow of a short-lived spurge, Euphorbia oblonga.
There's a wild caper spurge, native to Britain, that loves to pop up out of the gravel outside my back door; I even have a wild rose that came in and seeded itself, growing up my pear tree.
