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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.

Alisma plantago-aquatica - Water-plantain



One of the rarer aquatic species of Cornwall, it has declined in occurrence this century, most noticeably in West Cornwall. It can be found at various places along the Tamar river starting at the Tamar Lakes (SS21V) and is quite frequent in pools in mid-Cornwall such as on Breney Common (SX06K), but is absent from 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.