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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.

Buddleja davidii - Butterfly-bush



Butterfly-bush has been much planted in gardens from where it has readily escaped and become widely naturalised. In built-up areas it grows from pavement cracks and walls, as well as on waste ground. It is also very common on former mining sites, where it is tolerant of a wide range of soil conditions. It seems to prefer the drier, stonier sites. It is absent from 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.