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Euphorbia drummondii Boiss.
Caustic Weed

Reference
Cent.Euphorb. 14 (1860)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Mixed (Native in Part of Range, Naturalised Elsewhere)
Name Status
Current

Prostrate, spreading, short-lived annual or perennial, herb, to 0.3 m high. Fl. green-white/red-pink, Mar to Sep. Yellow sand, clay. Stony hills, dunes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 September 1999
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Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Dampierland, Esperance Plains, Gascoyne, Geraldton Sandplains, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Mallee, Murchison, Northern Kimberley, Pilbara, Swan Coastal Plain, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Augustus, Cape Range, Central, Chichester, Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Edel, Fitzgerald, Fitzroy Trough, Geraldton Hills, Hamersley, Katanning, Lateritic Plain, Mann-Musgrave Block, McLarty, Merredin, Mitchell, Perth, Roebourne, Rudall, Shield, Southern Cross, Tallering, Trainor, Western Mallee, Western Murchison.
IMCRA Regions
Abrolhos Islands, Eighty Mile Beach, Kimberley, Pilbara (nearshore), Pilbara (offshore).
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Ashburton, Broome, Cue, Cunderdin, Dalwallinu, Derby-West Kimberley, Dundas, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Goomalling, Greater Geraldton, Jerramungup, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Karratha, Kellerberrin, Lake Grace, Laverton, Leonora, Meekatharra, Menzies, Moora, Narrogin, Ngaanyatjarraku, Northampton, Perenjori, Sandstone, Shark Bay, Swan, Toodyay, Westonia, Wiluna, Wyalkatchem, Wyndham-East Kimberley, Yalgoo, Yilgarn, York.