ID a common garden weed? (Yes, pics)

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I have a feeling this is an easy one, but I canNOT find a definite identification.

I’m in north Texas. Plant has no flowers that I’ve ever seen, and small, soft oval leaves with silvet-gray undersides set as opposite pairs.

Curious if it’s edible (to people OR livestock) and if it’s native etc.
Thanks. :slight_smile:

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I don’t know what it is but we have a lot of it in our yard (NE Kansas). It’s a spreading weed, kinda like crabgrass, and if you break the stem a milky white sap oozes out, right?

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My wife is the plant expert. She did some googling and says it is spotted spurge or prostrate spurge.

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Spurge. Spotted spurge is real common in Southern California. I hate that shit!

Damn! Ninja’ed!

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Is it a succulent? The stems look juicy like that. I was going to suggest purslane, but your plant has opposing leaves and purslane doesn’t.

Some of the many species of spurge look similar.

ETA: As suggested above.

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Ah, didn’t realize there’s a few species if spurge. I saw spurge on a few “Weed ID” webpages but images i found on subsequent googling didn’t match up.

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Not succulent. The stems are slightly woody, in fact.

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