Veronica scutellata
Ecology
This perennial herb is found in a wide range of wetland habitats, including pond and lake margins, marshes, fens and fen-meadows, wet grassland, hillside flushes, bogs and wet heath, often on acidic soils. It occurs in both open habitats and amongst tall vegetation. 0-780 m on Cross Fell (Cumberland).
Status
Trends
V. scutellata is now much better recorded than in the 1962 Atlas, where it was mapped as `all records`. The current map shows widespread declines, especially in C. & S. England and C. Ireland. Analysis of the database reveals that these losses have occurred since 1950.
World Distribution
Eurosiberian Boreo-temperate element; also in N. America and widely naturalised outside its native range.
Broad Habitats
Light (Ellenberg): 8
Moisture (Ellenberg): 9
Reaction (Ellenberg): 5
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 3
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.4
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 14.3
Annual Precipitation (mm): 1129
Height (cm): 25
Perennation - primary
Life Form - primary
Woodiness
Clonality - primary
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 1877
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 576
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 3
Atlas Change Index: -0.06
Weighted Changed Factor: 12
Weighted Change Factor Confidence (90%)
JNCC Designations
Atlas text references
Atlas (228d)
Atlas Supp (51a)
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1986. Atlas of north European vascular plants north of the Tropic of Cancer. 3 vols.
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1978. Vergleichende Chorologie der zentraleuropäischen Flora. Volume 2. 2 vols.