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Snow-on-the-Mountain

Genus: Euphorbia.

Species: Euphorbia marginata.

This beautiful wildflower just showed up in my yard one year and reseeds itself every year now. It's a native annual. ***The juice of this plant is TOXIC and can cause redness, swelling and blisterinig of the skin on contact. A story is told that the sap is such an irritant that it was once used in Texas for branding cattle. Bees that visit the flowers often produce poisonous honey.

Photos of this plant

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