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Mercurialis annua

Ōhuiarangi / Pigeon Mountain, Auckland.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 18/07/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Young female flowers.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 25/08/2012, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

Mercury

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

Cream, Yellow

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Authority

Mercurialis annua L.

Ecology

Year naturalised

1904

Origin

Europe, Mediterranean to Iran

Other information

Etymology

annua: From the Latin annuus ‘year’, referring to a plant which completes its life cycle in a single year

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

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