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Marsh Arrowgrass - Triglochin palustris
Short to medium tufted, erect plant reaching 40 or 50 cm. Leaves deeply grooved at base, only 2 mm wide with a short, fairly blunt ligule. Flower 2 to 3 mm long in a lax spike, green/ purple and often fringed.
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It is found in wet meadows, fens, stream banks and damp grassland usually on calcareous soils.
Flowering time: June and July.
Perennial.
It occurs locally in the British Isles being more common in the north and in Wales.
Near scarce in Leicestershire and Rutland.
It was listed in the previous VC55 Rare Plant Register (Jeeves 2011), but is not on the current Register (Hall & Woodward, 2022)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Marsh Arrowgrass
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Alismatales
- Family:
- Juncaginaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 12/06/2016 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 23/06/2017 (Nicholls, David)
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