Euphorbia marginata
| Euphorbia marginata | |
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| Snow-on-the-mountain, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Genus: | Euphorbia |
| Species: | E. marginata
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| Binomial name | |
| Euphorbia marginata | |
Euphorbia marginata (commonly known as snow-on-the-mountain, smoke-on-the-prairie, variegated spurge, or whitemargined spurge) is a small
spurge family
.
It is native to parts of temperate North America, from Eastern Canada to the Southwestern United States.[2] It is naturalized throughout much of China.[3]
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.[4][5]
Description
Snow-on-the-mountain has grey-green leaves along branches and smaller leaves (
cyathophylls
) 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.
Snow-on-the-mountain has also been found to emit large quantities of sulfur gas, mainly in the form of dimethyl sulfide (DMS).[6]
References
- ^ NatureServe (2024). "Euphorbia marginata". Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Euphorbia marginata". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
- ^ Ma, Jin-shuang; Gilbert, Michael G. "Euphorbia marginata". Flora of China. Vol. 11 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
- ^ International Plant Names Index (2008), The International Plant Names Index, archived from the original on 2015-08-13, retrieved 2008-12-30
- ISBN 978-0-8032-2931-0
- ISSN 0038-0768.
External links
- Euphorbia marginata in the CalPhotos photo database, University of California, Berkeley
- "Euphorbia marginata". Plants for a Future.
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