Locally known as Bulang; Tiriguhan. A smooth annual up to 75 cm high, leaves ; slightly keeled, smooth, base tinged with reddish-purple coloration, linear lanceolate, longer than wide up to 25 cm by up to 7 mm, stems; enlarged at the nodes, flat, inflorescence; panicled, ascending up to 12 cm long, rachis are hairy containing up to 12 racemes armed with soft spikes at the base, green to purplish, spikelets; densely crowded , 2 to 4 in shoulders on each side of the rachis. nearly sessile to sessile, fruits; caryopsis. Common in waste places throughout the Philippines and the tropics, a good fodder grass, also seen in rice and vegetable plantation.
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
Locally known as Bakis-Bakisan, Kabit-Kabitan, Sambali. A smooth to slightly hairy, stout, tufted, ascending, glaborous grass, scattered branches, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, up 1 meter high, leaves; longer than wide, soft spikes at the collar, sheaths are laterally flattened, linear lanceolate, margins are parallel, coarse edge, inflorescence; spikes up to 6, all are whorled terminally, spikelets; numerous, dense, sessile, in two common rows in a flattened rachi located underneath, fruits; reddish brown, a caryopsis, with though ridges. Scattered along roadsides, drylands and ricefields throughout the Philippines and the tropics.
Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. ex Wight
Locally known as Tagulinaw. An erect or ascending, variable, hairy annual, branched up to 60 cm high. leaves; fleshy, alternate, lower ovate on a narrow winged stalk, 10 cm by 5 cm almost longer than wide, the upper ones are small, upper leaves are sessile, somewhat clasping the stems. inflorescence; heads up to 14 mm long, in a long and slender peduncles, terminal, flowering heads are cylindrical, up to 10, 1 cm by up to 5mm longer than wide resting in a straight perfectly erect branches, dicotomous, flowers; purple, dense clusters of hairs, bent after flowering. Oftenly in open grass lands, waste places, widely distributed in the Philippines and throughout Tropical Asia, Africa and Malayan Peninsula. Propagated through seeds.
Eragrostis spp.
Annual or perennial, culms are erect, ascending, green tinged with blue, up to 1 meter tall, leaves; smooth, narrow, bending, sessile, lanceolate, inflorescence; spikelets; variable in number, flowers; in an exposed or contracted panicles, compressed laterally, glumes; in numbers, flowering glumes; tri-nerved, densely arranged, over-lapping, flowers contained are perfect, oftenly tinged with purplish shade, grains; minute, sometimes free. Scattered throughout the Philippines and the tropic.
Eragrostics tenella (L.) R. & S. (syn. E. plumosa Link.)
A slender, densely tufted annual, culms are up to30 cm tall, leaves; linear, acuminate, longer than wide, up to 10 cm by up to 3 mm, with soft bristles near the blade, inflorescence; panicles; oblong, solitary, loosely dense, ascending, long and slender, spikelets; pale, with 5 florets, contained in a long pedicel, flowering glumes up to 6, variable in shape from lanceolate to ovate. Characteristically delicate, scattered throughout the Philippines and the tropics.
Euphorbia hirta
Locally known as Luha ng Birhen; Gatas Gatas. An annual herb usually creeping, branched from the base, with characteristically soft bristles, stems; semi-erect, originating from a common tap root, ascending or spreading, up to 40cm long, often reddish or purplish, leaves; opposite, oblong-lanceolate, slightly serrated, tinged with purple in the middle or sometimes at the margin, sessile to short stalked, hairy underneath, inflorescence; in clusters, axillary, dense, small, from green to pink, almost sessile, flowers sometimes referred to as bald due to the distinct absence of petals, peduncles; brown to reddish brown. capsules; broadly ovoid, hairy, tri-angled.
Euphorbia milli(syn. E. splendens)
Commonly known as Crown of Thorns. Erect sometimes climbing, semi-succulent, thick wooded stems, cylindric or obscurely angled, slow growing up to 4 feet long, heavily thorned, leaves; few, whorled, bright green, oblong, blunt tip, somewhat sessile, flowers; in dense clusters, tiny yellow flowers situated in a bright pink bract. Commonly cultivated in gardens distributed throughout the Philippines. Native of Madagascar.
Euphorbia myrtifolia
With fleshy stems, milky sap, hairy, reddish, slender branches originating from a taproot, leaves; dark green, oblong, almost sessile, arranged in compact paired opposite spirals, inflorescence; minute white flowers, in loose clusters on short stalks situated at the leaf axils.