© Paul Hackney
Map updated: March 2008
| This is a Protected species in Northern Ireland under the Wildlife (NI) Order, 1985. (More details) |
| Species Description: |
| This unusual plant is a fern of wet lake margins. It once grew around Lough Neagh, but successive lowerings of the lake water level rendered it extinct, and it has not been seen since 1950. |
| All names: Pilularia globulifera L. |
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