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.
Range & Status
Archaeophyte. European Temperate species. Widely scattered throughout lowland
Britain but status confused due to loss of native populations and massive increase of introductions.
Regional Distribution
Only one recent site in cereal fields near Mylor Bridge (SW83), where it is considered to be native and a dozen where it has been introduced in seed-mixes.
Habitat & Ecology
Cereal fields, waste places and some re-seeded pasture fields.
Threats
Probably unlikely to survive as a native.
Conservation
Unknown.
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.