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Euphorbia peplus

Petty Spurge

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) Sergey Mayorov, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Sergey Mayorov (iNaturalist)

38

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1909

First collected

2012

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Euphorbia peplus, most mentions first.

  1. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  2. 2025

  3. 2018

    New plant records from Midway Atoll, Kaho‘olawe Island, and Maui

    Starr, F. & Starr, K. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2017

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2017: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2003

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2001-2002. Part II: Notes

    N.L. Evenhuis & Eldredge, L.G., eds. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 2003

    Hawaii's biodiversity: a detailed assessment of the numbers of species in the Hawaiian Islands

    Eldredge, L.G. & N.L. Evenhuis · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  7. 2002

    Index to the Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for the years 1994 through 2000

    Evenhuis, N.L. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  8. 2001

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2001: -02: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

2 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1900s2010s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1909 by Rock, J.F.C. (Hawaiʻi Island).

From the collection

Euphorbia peplus, 610959Euphorbia peplus, 50130Euphorbia peplus, 50132Euphorbia peplus, 465725Euphorbia peplus, 50127Euphorbia peplus, 783067Euphorbia peplus, 142408Euphorbia peplus, 50128Euphorbia peplus, 507810Euphorbia peplus, 509651Euphorbia peplus, 50123Euphorbia peplus, 50125

Alive today

11 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.