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Crackdown on Pygmy-weed at popular Bloxwich pool
Walsall Council 24 Aug 10
Walsall’s Countryside services are tackling an invasive weed which is threatening wildlife at a popular pool in Bloxwich.
The site in Wallington Heath Pool in Stafford Road has become infested with non-native and highly invasive New Zealand Pygmy-weed (Crassula helmsii) also known as Australian Swamp Stonecrop.
This small aquatic plant with white flowers grows on the muddy margins of ponds and forms a carpet of leaves across the water. At Wallington Heath, nearby residents have complained the invasive plant is spreading rapidly across the pool and is smothering other native water plants…