Eaten by cattle and goats to a small extent. Horses and pigs do not eat it. Contains the poisonous alkaloid aporein
(C18H16O2N
{\displaystyle {\ce {C18H16O2N}}}) and other alkaloids. The total amount of alkaloids in the milky juice is 0.001-0.025%.
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Northern Europe: Denmark, Ireland, Sweden (south), Great Britain; Central Europe: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland; Southern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Romania, France (including Corsica), Portugal, Spain (including the Balearic Islands); territory of the former USSR: Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Russia (Crimea), Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ciscaucasia, Dagestan), Turkmenistan; Western Asia: Egypt (Sinai Peninsula), Iran, Iraq, Turkey; Southern Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan; Africa: Algeria (north), Egypt, Libya (north), Morocco, Tunisia, Madeira Island, Canary Islands.
Naturalized as an alien plant in the Azores and North America.
It grows on rocky and clayey slopes, in fields, and along roads.
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