Euphorbia marginata

Euphorbia marginata
Snow-on-the-mountain, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Euphorbia
Species: E. marginata
Binomial name
Euphorbia marginata
Pursh

Euphorbia marginata, snow-on-the-mountain, smoke-on-the-prairie, variegated spurge, whitemargined spurge, is a small shrub in the Euphorbiaceae or spurge family.

It is native to parts of temperate North America.[1] It is found from Eastern Canada to the Southwestern United States. [1]

The type specimen was collected in Rosebud County, Montana from the area of the Yellowstone River by William Clark during the Lewis and Clark Expedition.[2][3]

Description

Euphorbia marginata plant has grey-green leaves along branches and smaller leaves in terminal whorls with edges trimmed with wide white bands, creating, together with the white flowers, the appearance that gives the plant its common names.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 USDA, NRCS, USDA The PLANTS database, National Plant Data Center, retrieved 2012-09-29
  2. ↑ International Plant Names Index (2008), The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 2008-12-30
  3. ↑ Lewis, Meriwether; William Clark, Moulton, Gary E., ed., The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Volume 12: Herbarium of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, University of Nebraska Press, p. 359, ISBN 978-0-8032-2931-0
Euphorbia marginata.

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