Caustic Spurge: Flowers & Young Fruit

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Spurges, Violets & Allies (Malpighiales)

Family:

Spurge (Euphorbiaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Caustic Spurge (Euphorbia drummondii)

This Photo:

Flowers & Young Fruit

Synonym:

Chamaesyce drummondii

Other names:

Caustic Creeper, Caustic Weed, Creeping Caustic, Flat Spurge, Mat-spurge or Milkweed

Thank you Dr Kym Nicolson for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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