Euphorbia, Purple Spurge 'Chameleon'

Help! This plant baffles me. In spring, it is gorgeous, but by July, it looks dead and scraggly. I've tried this plant in full sun, pa...Read Morertial sun, open shade, damp areas, dry areas - and no difference. And yet, the same plant at my father in law's house in open shade is just gorgeous all summer long (and it comes from the same stock at my house that looks awful). Any advice? I have lots of other euphorbias, and I don't have problems with them at all, just this one.

I live in Pittsburgh, zone 5b.

A great plant for its dark maroon foliage all season in sun. The foliage loses its distinctive maroon color and greens up in shade. I fin...Read Mored the plant neat and non-straggly even late in the season. Foliage is deciduous here in Boston Z6a.

Flowers are tiny and ornamentally insignificant---the bracts are the same maroon color as the foliage. Victorgardener's pic looks like E. griffithii and not the plant under discussion.

Where I live, in eastern Massachusetts, this looks good all season. I've grown this for many years in many gardens, and find occasional seedlings but never to excess. Seedlings inherit the fine dark foliage color.

This plant does not prosper in the hot humid summers of the US southeast south of Z7. It's also highly mildew-prone in the Pacific Northwest (But not here in New England.)

This Euphorbia has been growing in my garden for at least 5 years. Many seedlings are found, some a good distance from the parent plant....Read More I like the variety of tones in the foliage, but it seems to give up quickly, looking scraggly or unkempt. By fall, it looks terrible and I am surprised when it returns in the spring. Location is a slight slope with ample sunshine and good fertility. Source was Bluestone Perennials, a three pack, each of which I placed about 10 inches apart in a triangle patch. I don't think I would buy this one again.

This plant has nice color but I find it rather straggly looking and it also reseeds with abandon. I would not plant it again.