Euphorbia characias ‘Red Wing’ at Digging Dog Nursery

Euphorbia

Milkwort

Named after Euphorbus, physician to the king of Mauritania, this robust, sun-loving genus includes the familiar Poinsettia and is over 1600 species strong. Most Euphorbia have a poisonous milky sap and soft-colored bracts that surround subtly defined flowers. Autumn watches many of their narrow green leaves turn shades of red, orange and yellow.

Euphorbia characias ‘Red Wing’

Euphorbia characias ‘Red Wing’ (P-1106)

Each 11.00

Perhaps more muted in color than a cardinal’s wing but still as captivating, this new cultivar is enlivened with red-tinged young growth and red floral buds held by reddish stems. All this rubescent coloring richly complements the handsome dark green foliage, and in late winter the profusion of electric yellow-green bracts set its compact form aglow. Appealing year round, ‘Red Wing’ can be paired with Helianthemum.

Blooms late March–May

Size: 20" – 2' 0" high x 2' 0" wide.

Hardy to zone 5.

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