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Flora of Cornwall (1999)

The descriptive text, below the map, is from the Flora of Cornwall (1999), which was a Tetrad Atlas (the maps had 2km square dots or Tetrads). The map on this web page depicts the plant's distribution at the 1km square scale and shows the records made pre-2000 which were used in the 1999 Flora and those made since.

Medicago arabica - Spotted Medick



Spotted Medick is common and widespread along the south coast but more local in occurrence on the north. Strangely it is missing from much of north east Cornwall. This plant grows in short turf grassland, in lawns, road verges and banks, waste places, arable fields and permanent pastures and on cliff-tops and amongst sand dunes. It is also common on the Isles of Scilly.



Click here to see Aphotoflora images by David Fenwick

Source:

French, C.N., Murphy, R.J. & Atkinson, M. 1999. Flora of Cornwall. Wheal Seton Press, Camborne.