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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.

Dactylorhiza praetermissa - Southern Marsh-orchid



Southern Marsh-orchid is the most successful and common orchid in Cornwall and can be found in many habitats, including marshes, fields, wet heaths, road verges, old walls and even growing through cracks in tarmac. It also occurs on the Isles of Scilly (Miles, 1998).



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.