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Baldellia ranunculoides Alismataceae Lesser Water-plantain
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Baldellia ranunculoides
© Roy Anderson		 Baldellia ranunculoides
© Graham Day		 Baldellia ranunculoides
© Robert Northridge		 Baldellia ranunculoides
Map updated: March 2008
Species Description:
Rather like a small version of the narrow-leaved water-plantain (Alisma lanceolatum) and found in the same sort of aquatic habitat: the shallow margins of lakes and ponds. The records are mostly concentrated into three regions
  1. Lough Neagh/Lough Beg
  2. the Fermanagh lakeland
  3. the western side of Strangford Lough and the Lecale Peninsula
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All names: Baldellia ranunculoides (L.) Parl.; Alisma ranunculoides L.; Echinodorus ranunculoides (L.) Engelm.

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