Taxon: Mercurialis annua L.

Common names:

• annual mercury   (Source: Radcliffe-Smith,p.c.) – English
  
• French mercury   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• herb mercury   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• einjähriges Bingelkraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• grenbingel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Weed TabCIBA. 1968)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Mercurialis annua from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Georgia
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Radcliffe-Smith, A. 1998. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Mercurialis annua.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Mercurialis annua.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Mercurialis annua.

Check other web resources for Mercurialis annua L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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