Wood Club-rush
Scientific name: Scirpus sylvaticus L.
Family: Cyperaceae
MORPHOLOGY
Appearance and Size: Perennial herbaceous plant, up to 120 cm tall, with short stolons.
Stem: Erect, robust, triangular stems.
Leaves: Flat leaves with blades 8-12(18) mm wide; sheaths (at least the lower ones) generally brown.
Flowers: Widely branched inflorescence (1-2 dm), with the ultimate branches often spreading or inclined, and large leaf-like bracts. Numerous brown, oval spikes (3-4 mm) in clusters of 2-5 at the branch tips, multi-flowered. Blooms from April to July.
Fruits and Seeds: Yellow-brown achenes, trigonal-clavate (1 mm), surrounded by straight perigonial bristles of equal length.
DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT
Grows from Tuscany northwards as well as in Abruzzo and Calabria, between 0 and 1,800 m in marshy meadows and damp woodlands.
Photo: licensed free of charge from Saxifraga and Ed Stikvoort, Jan van der Straaten, Rutger Barendse



















