Llyn Bychan
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Description
Description A small, natural lake with a relatively high nutrient status but low productivity. It has good stands of emergent vegetation composed largely of water horsetail Equisetum fluviatile, club-rush Schoenoplectus lacustris, and water lobelia Lobelia dortmanna. Good populations of Shore-weed Littorella uniflora and Alternate-flowered Water Milfoil Myriophyllum alterniflorum occur. The lake has a moderately high range of phytoplankton species and numbers.
Species mentioned
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IUCN / Red List | Type | Family |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| water horsetail | Equisetum fluviatile | LC | herb | equisetaceae |
| shoreweed | Littorella uniflora | LC | herb | plantaginaceae |
| water lobelia | Lobelia dortmanna | LC | herb | campanulaceae |
| alternate water-milfoil | Myriophyllum alterniflorum | LC | herb | haloragaceae |
| common club rush | Schoenoplectus lacustris | LC | sedge | cyperaceae |