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Euphorbia acuta
Pointed sandmat is a small, hairy, drought-tolerant herb from the south-central US and northern Mexico, with a thickened rootstock that lets it persist. It is a wild plant of dry, sandy ground rather than a common garden or houseplant.
Euphorbia acuta, the pointed sandmat, is a species of flowering plant.
The native range of this species is the south-central USA and into the northern extreme parts of the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua and Coahuila
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Euphorbia acuta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
