Potentilla anglica
Tracheophyta
›Magnoliopsida›Rosaceae›Potentilla›Potentilla anglica
Ecology
A procumbent perennial of heaths, dry banks, woodland borders and field edges, usually on well-drained acidic soils, but avoiding podsols. It can also occur on waste ground and railway embankments. 0?410 m (Fron Hill, Rads.).
Status
Native
Trends
P. anglica can be morphologically very similar to some forms of its hybrids with P. erecta or P. reptans, and the map may contain some errors. It was mapped as `all records` in the 1962 Atlas. The current map suggests a decline in S. and E. England and C. Ireland. Analysis of the database reveals that many of these losses have occurred since 1950.
World Distribution
European Temperate element; also in N. America.
© K.J. Walker, BSBI
Peatmoor Pond
© K.J. Walker, BSBI
Broad Habitats
Neutral grassland (includes coarse Arrhenatherum grassland)
Light (Ellenberg): 7
Moisture (Ellenberg): 5
Reaction (Ellenberg): 5
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 5
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 4
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 15
Annual Precipitation (mm): 1045
Height (cm): 25
Perennation - primary
Perennial
Life Form - primary
Hemicryptophyte
Woodiness
Herbaceous
Clonality - primary
Far-creeping by stolons in illuminated medium
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 1248
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 733
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 4
Atlas Change Index: 0.11
Weighted Changed Factor: -5
Weighted Change Factor Confidence (90%)
27
JNCC Designations
NHMSYS0000462026