Kickxia spuria
Tracheophyta
›Magnoliopsida›Scrophulariaceae›Kickxia›Kickxia spuria
Ecology
An annual of arable land and open waste ground, usually on calcareous soils, in similar habitats to K. elatine and often growing with it. Lowland.
Status
Archaeophyte
Trends
Like K. elatine, this species has a similar range to that mapped in the 1962 Atlas. Although both species are often thought to be declining, they have never been abundant weeds and the distribution may be more stable than is often supposed.
World Distribution
As an archaeophyte K. spuria has a European Southern-temperate distribution.
© K.J. Walker, BSBI
© K.J. Walker, BSBI
Gog Magog Hills, vc29
© P. Shannon
Gog Magog Hills, vc29
© P. Shannon
Gog Magog Hills, vc29
© P. Shannon
Broad Habitats
Arable and horticultural (includes orchards, excludes domestic gardens)
Light (Ellenberg): 7
Moisture (Ellenberg): 4
Reaction (Ellenberg): 7
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 5
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.9
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 16.2
Annual Precipitation (mm): 737
Height (cm): 25
Perennation - primary
Annual
Life Form - primary
Therophyte (annual land plant)
Woodiness
Herbaceous
Clonality - primary
Little or no vegetative spread
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 622
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 0
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 2
Atlas Change Index: -0.07
Weighted Changed Factor: 14
Weighted Change Factor Confidence (90%)
27
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000004074
Atlas text references
Atlas (224a)
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1978. Vergleichende Chorologie der zentraleuropäischen Flora. Volume 2. 2 vols.