3 Nov 2017

Critter of the Week: Cook's Scurvy Grass

From Afternoons, 3:35 pm on 3 November 2017
Cook's Scurvy Grass: Lepidium oleraceum

Cook's Scurvy Grass: Lepidium oleraceum Photo: Crown Copyright DOC P.J. de Lange

Without conservation management, extinction of one or more species is highly likely.

Today in Critter of the Week with Nicola Toki of DoC, we focus on one of those species, Nau, which grows in many different coastal places in NZ but is the only endemic coastal cress found in the far north.

It also has a connection with a historical visitor to that region.