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Field Wood-rush - Luzula campestris
A compact and loosely tufted hairy grass like plant, with a short rootstock and shortly creeping runners. Leaves 2 to 4 mm wide, bright green, grass like, thinly hairy. Variable in height and form; stems rarely over 15 cm tall usually much less, erect, ending in a loose panicle of 1 stalkless and 3 to 6 stalked, globose to ovoid heads, each with 3 to 12 florets, the stalks of the heads curved in flower.
In short grassy situations, lawns, roadside verges, preferring moist conditions.
March to June.
Perennial.
Common throughout Britain.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 421 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Field Wood-rush
- Species group:
- Grasses, Rushes & Sedges
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Poales
- Family:
- Juncaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 215
- First record:
- 21/06/2001 (Jane McPhail;John Kramer)
- Last record:
- 07/05/2024 (O'Brien, Helen)
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