Crepis paludosa
Tracheophyta
›Magnoliopsida›Asteraceae›Crepis›Crepis paludosa
Ecology
In the uplands, this perennial herb is found on rocky, wooded streamsides, where it often grows on water-splashed rocks, and also in sheltered gullies and flushed banks. At lower altitudes it occurs in fens, damp hay meadows, ditches and on roadside verges. Lowland to 915 m (Easterness).
Status
Native
Trends
There has been no overall change in the distribution of C. paludosa since the 1962 Atlas, but it has declined at the southern edge of its range in both England and Ireland following habitat destruction and the drainage of lowland marshes.
World Distribution
European Boreo-temperate element.
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Broad Habitats
Light (Ellenberg): 6
Moisture (Ellenberg): 7
Reaction (Ellenberg): 6
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 4
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 2.7
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 13.4
Annual Precipitation (mm): 1334
Height (cm): 80
Perennation - primary
Perennial
Life Form - primary
Hemicryptophyte
Woodiness
Herbaceous
Clonality - primary
Little or no vegetative spread
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 1162
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 357
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 0
Atlas Change Index: -0.27
Weighted Changed Factor: -7
Weighted Change Factor Confidence (90%)
16
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000004578