Family: Juncaceae
Common name: Heath Wood-rush
Scientific name: Luzula multiflora
Date taken: 26/5/2024
Notes: Compared with other Luzula species, key features to look for include -
- Flowers in clusters, chestnut-brown in colour
- Plant with sparsely hairly normal flat leaves, but not as robust as that in Great Wood-rush (L. sylvatica)
- Plant not rhizomatous, anthers <3 times as long as filaments, which distinguishes it from Field Wood-rush (L. campestris), a smaller grassland specialist
Several subspecies have been recorded in the UK. The following population has reasonably wide leaves (>3mm) with flowers on several stalked clusters, so resembles ssp. multiflora.
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