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Photographer: Dan Tenaglia
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Family Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbia cyathophora Murray
fire-on-the-mountain, painted poinsettia, wild poinsettia
Euphorbia: for Euphorbus, corpulent Greek physician of Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba, educated in Rome, and married to daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. From eu, "good" and phorbe, "pasture or fodder," thus giving euphorbos the meaning "well fed."
cyathophora: cup bearing
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, annual, up to 40" tall forb, usually branched, mostly hairless |
| Flower: | green; arranged in a terminal cluster surrounded by mostly lobed leaves with white or red bases |
| Fruit: | 3-lobed, smooth capsule |
| Leaf: | mostly alternate; vary from linear to wide, with lobes or teeth |
| Habitat: | shade to partial shade; moist |
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