© Graham Day
Map updated: March 2008
| Species Description: |
| A very common species near the seashore in brackish pools, lagoons and saltmarshes; also in estuarine marshes such as those of the Lower Bann. The plant requires high levels of sodium salts in order to grow: in central Europe this requirement can be met in soda lakes and marshes far away from the sea, but in Ireland it is strictly maritime. (Also called Scirpus maritimus). |
| All names: Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla; Scirpus maritimus L. |
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