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12th June 2013, Anglesea. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
Grows in bogs and damp peaty places. |
12th June 2013, Anglesea. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
It grows from 15 to 75cm tall with its leaves being at least as long as the stem. [The linear sheaths at the base of the plant (unfortunately non discernible in these photos), are shiny, rather wide and blackish]. |
12th June 2013, Anglesea. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
The inflorescence is blackish-brown, 1.0 to 1.5mm long, densely grouped and ovoidal. |
12th June 2013, Anglesea. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
12th June 2013, Anglesea. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
This specimen must have the longest leaf-like bract amongst them, going off the photo at the top! Most are a lot shorter than this one. The base of leaf-like bracts on bog-rush species (there are only 2) encircles the whole head. |
12th June 2013, Anglesea. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
A specimen with slightly deeper grooves on the stem; most have very faint shallow grooves. |
12th June 2013, Anglesea. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
The lowest bract of a head has a leaf-like point and is between twice and five times longer than the head. |
12th June 2013, Anglesea. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
The spilelets (on the left side of the long spike) are between 5 and 8mm long and flattened with 5 or more in a head. The v-shaped keel of the glumes feel rough. |
12th June 2013, Anglesea. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
The fruit is a nut which is an unusual shiny, porcelain-white colour and 1.5mm long. The plant grows widely (but is only locally common,growing only in calcareous fens usually near a spring, bogs which are flushed with water, on wet rocks or in salt-marshes near the sea which are flushed. The habitats include serpentine heathland, damp peaty places, bogs, saltmarshes, fens and flushes.
There is but one other Bog-rush,
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