This is a plant to look for late in the season of a dry summer. It prefers the drying mud of lakesides or reservoirs and if conditions are right can be found locally in the thousands even though nationally rare. Conditions were perfect for this expedition as the reservoir was extremely low and the vegetation had started colonising the exposed shore probably before summer began.
Stocks reservoir near Slaidburn, 22nd September 2005
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Added on September 22nd 2005