Latin name: Narthecium ossifragum (L.) Huds. Family: Liliaceae
English name: Bog asphodel
Own language name: Narthécie des Marais
Description: perenneal plant, with rhizome,  5 to 30 cm high, yellow gold flowers in summer (june to augustus) with villous-wooly stamen.  Linears leaves,  3-5 mm large, distique.  
Distribution: 
Belgique : campinien, flandrien, mosan and ardennais districts.
 
 
Habitat: boggy moors, peat bog.
 
 

Report about the reasons of the risk:  progressive exctinction owning of drying and  enresinement of the habitat..

Categoria IUCN: 2, EN, endangered.
Possible solutions: preservation of its habitat.
 
Culinary and/or medicinal properties:  
 
 
 
 
Appearance in the Literature and Arts, folk wisdom : plant was suspect to fragilise the animals'born by eating it. 
 
 

 

  Whole plant

         Plant with fruits