Plant Details

Accepted name:: Euphorbia marginata Pursh [Euphorbiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
snow on the mountain	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
银边翠	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 16 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Agaloma marginata (Pursh) Á.Löve & D.Löve Bot. Not. 114: 40 (1961).
Dichrophyllum marginatum (Pursh) Klotzsch & Garcke Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1859: 249 (1859).
Dichrophyllum variegatum (Sims) Klotzsch & Garcke Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1859: 249 (1859).
Euphorbia bejariensis DC. Atti Riunione Sci. Ital. 2: 157 (1841).
Euphorbia bonplandii Sweet Hort. Brit., ed. 2: 456 (1830).
Euphorbia leucoloma Raf. Herb. Raf. 1: 22 (1833).
Euphorbia marginata Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 2: 61 (1817), nom. illeg.
Euphorbia marginata var. uloleuca Engelm. & A.Gray Boston J. Nat. Hist. 5: 261 (1845).
Euphorbia torrida DC. Atti Riunione Sci. Ital. 2: 158 (1841).
Euphorbia variegata Sims Bot. Mag. 42: t. 1747 (1815).
Lepadena leucoloma (Raf.) Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 114 (1838).
Lepadena marginata (Pursh) Nieuwl. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 2: 300 (1912).
Tithymalus marginatus (Pursh) Cockerell Torreya 9: 119 (1909).
Tithymalus marginatus f. inornata Daniels Fl. Boulder Colorado: 165 (1911).
Tithymalus marginatus var. tetramerus Cockerell in F.P.Daniels, Fl. Boulder Colorado: 165 (1911).
Tithymalus variegatus (Sims) Haw. Suppl. Pl. Succ.: 68 (1819).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Euphorbia marginata Pursh	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Euphorbia marginata Pursh.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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