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Snow On The Mountain
Euphorbia marginata
Snow On The Mountain is an erect summer annual in the spurge family with oblong green leaves banded in white toward the top of the plant, giving flowering stems a frosted look through mid to late summer. Small greenish-yellow flowers ringed by showy white bracts draw bees and butterflies, and the plant self-sows readily to return the following year. It tolerates poor, shallow, rocky ground across a wide pH range as long as drainage is good, but its milky sap causes skin irritation and can damage the eyes on contact.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 2–11
- Soil
- Clay · Loam · Sand
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained
Vertical layer
Herbaceous- Soil pH
- Not yet recorded
- Plant type
- Annual
- Mature height
- 12–36 in
- Mature spread
- 12–24 in
- Plant spacing
- 12–36 in
- Root type
- Not yet recorded
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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