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Youngia japonica

Oriental False Hawksbeard

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

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

134

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1855

First collected

2024

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Youngia japonica, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2013

    2012-2013 monitoring of the Orange-Black Damselfly Megalagrion xanthomelas (Sélys-Longchmps) (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae)

    Preston, D.J. & Arakaki, K. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2003

    Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu stream estuary study

    Englund, R.A., D.J. Preston & K.T. Arakaki · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1850s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1855 by Moran, R.V. (Okinawa).

From the collection

Youngia japonica, 446905Youngia japonica, 758530Youngia japonica, 796271Youngia japonica, 635371Youngia japonica, 132393Youngia japonica, 690485Youngia japonica, 133556Youngia japonica, 29311Youngia japonica, 121826Youngia japonica, 446878Youngia japonica, 792639Youngia japonica, 446898

Alive today

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