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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbia marginata Pursh
snow-on-the-mountain
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."
marginata: alluding to the margins of the leaves
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Introduced - escaped |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 12"-32" tall forb |
| Flower: | 5-parted, no petals or sepals; 3 upper leaves petal-like, gray-green and edged with white; inflorescence a dense cluster |
| Fruit: | 3-lobed capsule |
| Leaf: | stem leaves alternate, stalkless; those below the inflorescence, whorled or opposite |
| Habitat: | full sun; escaped from gardens |
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