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Cornish Red Data (2009)

The descriptive text, below the map, is from the Cornish Red Data Book (2009). The map on this web page depicts the organisms distribution and shows the records made pre-2000 and those made since.

Trifolium strictum - Upright Clover



Range & Status

Native; an Submediterranean-Sub Atlantic species that extends north into the Channel Islands (Jersey) and western Britain, where it was recently re-found in Radnorshire but is otherwise restricted to The Lizard in Cornwall.

Regional Distribution

In Cornwall it has been recorded in 19 1km squares, all on west side of The Lizard (SW61), but only six 1km squares since 1999. There are two historic inland outliers, at Chypons (SW62) and Goonhilly Downs (SW71).

Habitat & Ecology

A maritime grassland plant, it is found both on the serpentine and on The Lizard schists, growing on cliff slopes and edges. On the exposed west coast of The Lizard it can extend inland up the valleys, growing on grazed grassy banks that overlie shallow stony soils.

Threats

Threatened by a lack of grazing, scrub invasion and adverse human activity.

Conservation

Much of the southern part of the Lizard Peninsula is SSSI and managed by the National Trust and Natural England.



Click here to see Aphotoflora images by David Fenwick

Source:

I.J. Bennallick, S. Board, C.N. French, P.A. Gainey, C. Neil, R. Parslow, A. Spalding and P.E. Tompsett. eds. 2009. Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 2nd Edition.Croceago Press.

The Cornish Red Data Book Project was led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR). The full text and species accounts (minus the maps) are available on the CISFBR website.



Cornish Biodiversity Network. 2017.