Shining Pondweed - Potamogeton lucens
Large-leaved pondweed, with oval or broadly lanceolate petiolate leaves with obtuse, pointed or mucronate apex; all leaves submerged. Can be abundant where it occurs
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Open water - lakes, reservoirs, canals, slow rivers etc. - in areas with base-rich soils
see the BSBI's Plant Atlas 2020 website
Scarce (Jeeves, 2011).
It is on the current VC55 Rare Plant Register (Hall & Woodward, 2022) but because of a shortage of precise records, its local status isn't clear.
sue
Saddington Reservoir
28 July 2024
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Species profile
- Common names
- Shining Pondweed
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- Wildflowers
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- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 28/07/2024 (Timms, Sue)
- Last record:
- 28/07/2024 (Timms, Sue)
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