Confused Eyebright

Euphrasia confusa Pugsley

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Native

Confused Eyebright is an annual of grazed pasture and grassy heathland on free-drained, acidic or calcareous soils. It is especially characteristic of hill pastures in N. & W. Britain, but is occasionally found in open vegetation on sandy soils elsewhere. It is rare and mainly coastal in Ireland. It can withstand intense grazing pressure (F. J. Rumsey in Preston et al, 2002).

In Norfolk, Confused Eyebright seems to be particularly a plant of the Brecks and it has only occasionally been recorded elsewhere.

Euphrasia confusa map