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Cornish Red Data (2009)

The descriptive text, below the map, is from the Cornish Red Data Book (2009). The map on this web page depicts the organisms distribution and shows the records made pre-2000 and those made since.

Misopates orontium - Lesser Snapdragon



Range & Status

Archaeophyte; Lowland, Eurosiberian southern-temperate species. Almost restricted to the southern half of the British Isles.

Regional Distribution

Found throughout Cornwall except in the St. Austell and Bodmin Moor granite areas and north-east Cornwall. Since 1999 it has been found in several dozen new sites. In Scilly it is scattered on arable land on the inhabited islands and occasionally on disturbed ground. It is possibly in decline.

Habitat & Ecology

An arable weed of corn and bulb-fields, horticultural crops and in allotments. It is very

rarely seen in gardens and waste places. It is normally only seen in small numbers.

Threats

Threatened by agricultural intensification and crop changes that do not accommodate spring-germinating weeds.

00 Conservation

Many sites are not protected.



Click here to see Aphotoflora images by David Fenwick

Source:

I.J. Bennallick, S. Board, C.N. French, P.A. Gainey, C. Neil, R. Parslow, A. Spalding and P.E. Tompsett. eds. 2009. Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 2nd Edition.Croceago Press.

The Cornish Red Data Book Project was led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR). The full text and species accounts (minus the maps) are available on the CISFBR website.