In Yemen it has been recorded in spurge (Euphorbia) scrub and woodland of acacias (Acacia) and junipers (Juniperus), while in the wooded Mahrah it is primarily found in Anogeissus/Commiphora woodland.
Non-indigenous floral species include the sheep's burr, angled onion, lesser joyweed, broom spurge, common swamp wallaby grass, pointed centrolepis, common spikerush and small spikerush.
Cnidoscolus stimulosus (Spurge Nettle), a plant of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae)
Euphorbia antisyphilitica (also called candelilla), a spurge species native to the Southern United States and Mexico