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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.

Agrostis canina - Velvet Bent



Velvet Bent is a grass of acid soils, found in waterlogged pastures and valley marshes, as well as in mires and wet moors on the granite uplands. It may sometimes be seen by tracks to china clay works and on the poorly drained wastes left in former tin streaming valleys. It is recorded for the Isles of Scilly.

Source:

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