Myosotis ramosissima
Tracheophyta
›Magnoliopsida›Boraginaceae›Myosotis›Myosotis ramosissima
Ecology
An annual of open habitats or bare ground on dry, relatively infertile soils. It is found in chalk and limestone grassland, on sandy heaths and banks, stabilised dunes, the borders of sandy cultivated fields, railway tracks, rocks, walls, gravel-pits, quarry spoil and waste ground. 0-430 m (above Swindale, Brough, Westmorland).
Status
Native
Trends
M. ramosissima was mapped as `all records` in the 1962 Atlas. There have been some local losses since 1950, possibly caused by the loss of close-grazed semi-natural communities in inland areas.
World Distribution
European Southern-temperate element.
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Broad Habitats
Light (Ellenberg): 8
Moisture (Ellenberg): 3
Reaction (Ellenberg): 6
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 3
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.8
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 15.5
Annual Precipitation (mm): 823
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: 1174
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 52
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 14
Atlas Change Index: 0.11
Weighted Changed Factor: -16
Weighted Change Factor Confidence (90%)
33
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000004014
Atlas text references
Atlas (215c)
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1988. Comparative Plant Ecology.
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1986. Atlas of north European vascular plants north of the Tropic of Cancer. 3 vols.