spurge

Difference between the two is alternating leaves instead of side by side, and spurge has a milky sap.

All they do is spurge illogical capitalist business nonsense for the sake of making a few pounds/dollars/yen etc.

There are about 3000 spurge species for example (and maybe ten real specialists in the genus Euphorbia in the entire world).

It's in spurge family, known for skin irritation in more northern species.

In my area, they use goats in town along heavily traveled bike and foot paths to control noxious weeds such as knapweed and leafy spurge.

But the other aren't useful and spotted spurge is toxic.

I don't have enough expertise to talk about how likely it is that you'll mistake spurge for purslane or how to identify.

Then something called chufa (a nutsedge), something called sacha inchi (Inca nut, a kind of spurge), and cassava/manioch bringing up the rear barely ahead of corn.

Spotted spurge is native to eastern North America.

Most of those I know who have taught themselves code (engineers, physicists, statisticians and mathematicians) in a non-academic environment spurge spaghetti, and I hate them to death.

We sort of see this happen with tax refunds, where people are basically forced to save throughout most of the year, the IRS gives it back at the end of the year, and they spurge the refund on a big purchase.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that "spurge" he identifies looks like knotweed to me.