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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.

Aira caryophyllea - Silver Hair-grass



Silver Hair-grass is frequent in places where soils are thin and stony, and can be found with Aira praecox . It grows along the tops of Cornish Hedges, on walls, mine burrows, dunes and heaths and on gravelly, rocky slopes by coastal paths. It is 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.