THIS IS A DRAFT
The species account below is an early version, drafted around 2003. It has been provided here to aid understanding, but please be aware it may not fully tally with the up-to-date map and statistics shown below.
Herniaria hirsuta
Hairy Rupturewort
Species Details
(Locally extinct) Hairy Rupturewort was a casual annual of disturbed ground. Our sole county record came from Duffield (SK34) in the eighteenth century (Pilkington 1789). This was also the first British record (Preston Xxet al. 2002). It is a native of central and southern Europe.