Sanguisorba officinalis
Tracheophyta
›Magnoliopsida›Rosaceae›Sanguisorba›Sanguisorba officinalis
Ecology
A perennial herb of neutral grassland, occurring on alluvial or peaty soils in damp or dry, unimproved pastures, hay meadows and marshy meadows, on river banks and lake shores and in base-enriched flushes on grassy heaths. 0-460 m near Cauldron Snout, Teesdale (Westmorland).
Status
Native
Trends
Whilst the range of S. officinalis remains the same as in the 1962 Atlas, losses have occurred through the improvement of pastures.
World Distribution
Circumpolar Boreo-temperate element, but absent as a native from eastern N. America; widely naturalised outside its native range.
© P. Shannon
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© P. Shannon
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© P. Shannon
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Broad Habitats
Neutral grassland (includes coarse Arrhenatherum grassland)
Light (Ellenberg): 7
Moisture (Ellenberg): 7
Reaction (Ellenberg): 6
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 5
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.2
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 15.1
Annual Precipitation (mm): 938
Height (cm): 120
Perennation - primary
Perennial
Life Form - primary
Hemicryptophyte
Woodiness
Herbaceous
Clonality - primary
Little or no vegetative spread
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 946
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 12
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 0
Atlas Change Index: -0.23
Weighted Changed Factor: -11
Weighted Change Factor Confidence (90%)
21
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000003387