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English
name :
slender
Cottongrass
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Own
language name: linaigrette
gracile
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| Description: grasslike perennial with stems (culms) 20-60 cm high arising singly from a slender rhizome. The leaf blades are less than 2 mm wide and triangularly channeled for their entire length. The inflorescence consists of 2-5 heads on short, drooping stalks that often exceed the single green, leafy inflorescence bract. Scales are greenish-brown to blackih with a slender midrib. The perianth consits of numerous cottony, white bristles. Fruits are straw-colored achenes. |
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Distribution: Belgium : lorrain district and the Haute Semois fens
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Habitat:
acid and mésotrophics water fens.
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Report about the reasons of the risk: drying of the fens |
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Categoria IUCN: 1, CR,
critically endangered
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Possible solutions: preservation
of the Haute Semois fens
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Culinary, medicinal and/or medicinal properties:
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Appearance in
the Literature and Arts:
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Infloresecence
