Leucojum vernum
Tracheophyta
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Ecology
A bulbous perennial herb of damp soils, thoroughly naturalised in woodland and scrub, by watercourses and in grassy places. Lowland.
Status
Neophyte
Trends
Although sometimes considered native at two localities in S.W. England, all British populations are almost certainly relics of cultivation or result from surplus garden plants being discarded into suitable habitats; it was being cultivated in Britain by 1596 and was first recorded in the wild in 1866. There has been little change in its distribution since the 1962 Atlas.
World Distribution
A European Temperate species, absent as a native from much of W. Europe.
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Broad Habitats
Broadleaved, mixed and yew woodland
Light (Ellenberg): 6
Moisture (Ellenberg): 6
Reaction (Ellenberg): 7
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 6
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.5
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 15.4
Annual Precipitation (mm): 894
Height (cm): 30
Perennation - primary
Perennial
Life Form - primary
Bulbous geophyte
Woodiness
Herbaceous
Clonality - primary
Tuberous or bulbous, slowing cloning by offsets
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 67
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 1
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 0
Atlas Change Index: 1.23
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000002251
Atlas text references
Atlas (327c)
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1965. Vergleichende Chorologie der zentraleuropäischen Flora. Volume 1. 2 vols.