naturalizedEuphorbiaceae
Euphorbia thymifolia
Red Caustic-creeper
Naturalized (non-native)non-native
Introduced and now reproducing on its own in the wild.
Euphorbia thymifolia, commonly known as Red caustic-creeper, is a prostrate annual herb of the family Euphorbiaceae. Native to tropical and subtropical America, it grows in seasonally dry tropical biomes and produces milky sap. The plant has velvet-hairy red stems up to 25 cm long, with small ovate leaves and minute cyathia flowers in the leaf axils. Widely used as a traditional medicine in Africa and Asia, it is also harvested as food and traded in local...
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Seasonality
Only 8 phenology-annotated observations exist for this species in Hawaiʻi — too few to describe a season. No window is inferred.
Gallery · 10 · iNaturalist
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Where documented · 66 ahupuaʻa
documented occurrences · iNaturalist + GBIF · iNaturalist 150 · GBIF 149 records
Waikīkī · OʻahuiNat 28 · GBIF 19 ✓
Honolulu · OʻahuiNat 15 · GBIF 12 ✓
Lanihau 1-2, Moeauo · HawaiʻiiNat 8 · GBIF 7 ✓
Kailua · OʻahuiNat 6 · GBIF 7 ✓
Ponahawai · HawaiʻiiNat 7 · GBIF 5 ✓
Waiākea · HawaiʻiiNat 5 · GBIF 6 ✓
Wailua · KauaʻiiNat 5 · GBIF 5 ✓
Maunalua · OʻahuiNat 4 · GBIF 4 ✓
Kāneʻohe · OʻahuiNat 4 · GBIF 4 ✓
Moanalua · OʻahuiNat 5 · GBIF 3 ✓
Kīlauea · KauaʻiiNat 4 · GBIF 3 ✓
Kealakehe · HawaiʻiiNat 3 · GBIF 3 ✓
Piʻihonua · HawaiʻiiNat 3 · GBIF 3 ✓
Kalaoa 1-5 · HawaiʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
Kalapakī · KauaʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
ʻAnaehoʻomalu · HawaiʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
Kamāʻoa, Puʻuʻeo, Ke · HawaiʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
ʻŌlaʻa · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 3 ✓
Keahuolū · HawaiʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 2 ✓
Puua · HawaiʻiGBIF 4
Hanamāʻulu · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 2 ✓
Pānauinui · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 2 ✓
Waiohuli · MauiiNat 2 · GBIF 1 ✓
Keaʻau · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 2 ✓
Keauhou · HawaiʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kawaihae 2 · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
ʻAlaenui · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Niumalu · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Hāʻena · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kaʻonoʻulu · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Puaʻakuloa, Kapena · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kaʻena · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Nāʻiwa · MolokaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
ʻOʻoma 1 · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Paunau · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kulaʻimano · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Keʻekeʻe 1-2, Kanakau · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kahue · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Punaluʻu · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Makahanaloa, Pepeʻekeo · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kamaʻole · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Papaʻanui · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Honouliuli · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Hālawa · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Olowalu · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Keauhou 2 · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Waimea, Waikoloa · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Waimalu · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Paeahu · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
ʻĀpua · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Hanalei · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Makawao · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Kamoku · LānaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Polanui · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Nāwiliwili · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
ʻEleʻele · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Honokōwai · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Keauhou 1 · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1 ✓
Honokahua · MauiGBIF 2
Wailuku · MauiGBIF 2
Kaunakakai · MolokaʻiGBIF 2
Pālāwai · LānaʻiGBIF 2
Honomakaʻu · HawaiʻiiNat 1
Kōloa · KauaʻiiNat 1
Keonepokonui · HawaiʻiGBIF 1
Kahana · OʻahuGBIF 1