common [1]. Tristan: Uncommon [2]. Gough: First collected at The Glen by Rudmose Brown in 1904 (Groves 1981). Presently also found at the Met Station at Transvaal Bay, as wll as locally along the coast. Inaccessible: First collected on Inaccessible by Christophersen in Feb 1938. Common along the coast, on slips and along the edges of bogs. Also up the West Road and below the western rim of the plateau. Absent from the plateau in 1999/2000 (Ryan & Glass 2001) [3].
- 14.1. Artificial - Terrestrial – Arable Land
- 14.2. Artificial - Terrestrial – Pastureland
- 14.3. Artificial - Terrestrial – Plantations
- 14.4. Artificial - Terrestrial – Rural Gardens
- 14.5. Artificial - Terrestrial – Urban Areas
- 14.6. Artificial - Terrestrial – Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest
- 15.5. Artificial - Aquatic – Excavations (open)
- 15.7. Artificial - Aquatic – Irrigated Land [includes irrigation channels]
- 15.9. Artificial - Aquatic – Canals and Drainage Channels, Ditches
- 4.6. Grassland – Subtropical/tropical seasonally wet/flooded
- 5.4. Wetlands (inland) – Bogs, marshes, swamps, fens, peatlands
disturbed areas and at seeps, mainly along the coast [1]. Tristan: At some places in and around the Settlement, and in the Cave Point area [2].
Cosmopolitan weed [1]
[1] Ryan, P. (ed.) (2007). Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island. Pisces Publications, Newbury. 162 pp; [2] Gremmen, N.J.M. and R.L. Halbertsma (2009). Alien plants and their impact on Tristan da Cunha. Report Data-Analyse Ecology, Diever, NL.; [3] Gremmen, N. J. M. (2010). Alien vascular plants of Inaccessible, Nightingale and Gough Islands (Tristan da Cunha Group).; [4] Groves, E.W. (1981). Vascular plant collections from the Tristan da Cunha group of islands. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 8 (4), 333- 420).; [5] Ryan, P. & Glass, J.P. (2001). Inaccessible Island Nature Reserve Management Plan. Government of Tristan da Cunha, Edinburgh, Tristan da Cunha. 65 pp.; [6] Maczey, N., Tanner, R., Cheesman, O., & Shaw, R. (2012). Understanding and addressing the impact of invasive non-native species in the UK Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic: A review of the potential for biocontrol. Unpublished report. CABI (ref: TR10086).