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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.

Atropa belladonna - Deadly Nightshade



Deadly Nightshade is not a plant one would expect to find in Cornwall due to its strong preference for lime-rich soils. There are only a few sporadic records for it and none recently, so it is probably no longer present in Cornwall.

Source:

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