Shining Pondweed
Shining Pondweed - Potamogeton lucens
Description
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
Identification difficulty
Recording advice
Good quality field photos
Habitat
Open water - lakes, reservoirs, canals, slow rivers etc. - in areas with base-rich soils
UK Status
see the BSBI's Plant Atlas 2020 website
VC55 Status
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.
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Saddington Reservoir
28 July 2024
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