Photo © Carl Farmer |
Common in boggy ground, areas of growth visible from a great distance as whitish patches. Leaves c 3-6 mm wide, cottony heads up to 4 cm. Glumes c 6-8 mm ID: Three kinds of bog-cotton grow in the area. This is the commonest. It has multiple flowerheads on one stem and its leaves are channelled rather than flat (look about a third of the way along the leaf). Other features: (all to distinguish from Broad-leaved B-C, which also has multiple heads) Stems roundish rather than triangular, sheath of uppermost leaf loose, flowerheads on smooth hairless stalks, glumes c 6-8 mm rather than c 4-5 mm, glumes brown with broad papery margins. |
