Bath Wildlife Sightings
Acorus calamus (Sweet-flag), Keynsham Memorial Park, ST6468
Date first seen
Date last seen
Frequency of Sighting
Species
Evidence
Quantity
Large patch
Locality
Keynsham Memorial Park
Habitat
Dominating marginal vegetation at the end of the duck pond
Environmental Conditions
Sunny
Grid Reference
ST646683
Other Information
No doubt planted when the park was originally laid out but it also occurs in a few paces along the Avon too. It rarely produces the cigar-shaped fruit but the puckered leaves help distinguish it from Yellow Flag, which ought to have seed-pods at this time of year.
Recorded by
Rob Randall
Identified by
Rob Randall