Rattlesnake Weed
Found throughout much of the American Southwest, rattlesnake weed is a member of the spurge family. Like all species of the Euphorbia genus, oozes a milky white sticky sap when damaged, and be careful because the sap of this particular species is poisonous. It gets its name from the erroneous fact that it was once believed that mashing this plant into a poultice would cure a rattlesnake bite. This one was photographed in Southern California's Mojave Desert.
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- © 2013
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America, American Southwest, Angiosperms, California, Chamaesyce, Chamaesyce albomarginata, E. albomarginata, Eudicots, Euphorbia, Euphorbia albomarginata, Euphorbiaceae, Joshua Tree National Park, Malpighiales, Mojave Desert, National Park, Plantae, Riverside County, Rosids, San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, SoCal, Sonoran Desert, Twentynine Palms, USA, United States, annual, beautiful, beauty, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, color, desert, dicot, flora, flower, flowers, forb, fresh, golondrina, gray, green, herb, native, natural, nature, perennial, plant, plants, rattle-snake weed, rattlesnake weed, red, silver, southwest, spring, spurge, west coast, white, white-margin sandmat, white-margin spurge, whitemargin sandmat, whitemargin sandmat white-margin sandmat, whitemargin spurge, wild, wildflowers, yerba de la vibora
- Contained in galleries
- White Wildflowers, Euphorbiaceae (Spurge Family)
