This introduction from Tropical America has appeared dotted randomly over the UK. It is as you would expect to be found in the South particularly in the Channel Islands but there is a substantial patch of it here in Cheshire too. It grows at the edges of sheltered ponds along with Typha latifolia (Bullrush) and Sparganium sp (Bur-reed) and in spite of its hot and humid origins seems to do very well here in the North.
Ponds near Rudheath, Cheshire 3rd September 2005
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