Snow-in-August

August certainly is setting up to be a hot one! We were just shy of 100 today.

Indeed I am happy these babies are about to fledge!

A treefrog is always special!
A picture in a picture!
Was I crazy for saying there was snow in August. Of course not with the Snow-on-the-prairie (Euphorbia bicolor)!

It is a cool plant (pun intended ;-).
Indeed the plant is soft like velvet. The other species, Snow-on-the mountain, in FNTC says the sap has caused skin eruptions and has been used to brand cattle in preference to a hot iron (Kingsbury 1964, 1965; Burlage 1968).

So yes August has “snow”! 😀

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9 Comments

  1. Hope the euphorbia studies work out – and soon! And to think it is all around us…………….
    That anteater has ears like a rabbit, but those claws! And just think – so many ants and termites hiding under ground

        1. Yes, she was talking a bit about the Snow-on-the-prairie last night at the board meeting. Some of her grad students do something with it too. I didn’t catch it all.

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