(modifié de Coste, Flore de la France 1937) :
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20-40 cm, glabre, à rhizomes traçants [en ligne]; tiges filiformes, nues, finement striées, tenaces, à moelle continue
Écologie : (répartition d'après la flore) Marais et prés humides des hautes montagnes : Vosges; Alpes; Cévennes, Forez, Auvergne ; Pyrénées.
Répartition hors de France : Presque toute l'Europe; Asie et Amérique boréales.
(modified from Butcher, British Flora 1961):
NOTE: the French text is more complete and up-to-date
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Flower spray appears below stem tip ('bract' above, which is a stem-like leaf)
A rather stiff perennial with several terete, nearly leafless, slender stems 15-30 cm long, growing in more or less linear rows from a tough creeping rhizome. Stems slender, erect, very faintly striate, with a continuous pith
Ecology UK: (distribution according to flora) It occurs on the margins of lakes in the English Lake District and some places in Scotland, where it is uncommon.
France:
Distribution outside France: ?
Fleurs : verdâtres, 3-8 en petite cyme latérale, [inflorescence subsessile], simple, lâche, placée vers le milieu de la tige ; périanthe à divisions lancéolées-aiguës ; 6 étamines, à anthères plus courtes que le filet ; style presque nul
Floraison France : Juin-août.
Flowers: about 3-5 mm diam., forming a rather dense, few-flowered head of about 7 flowers; longer bract about equalling the stem, sheath somewhat inflated; perianth segments straw coloured, lanceolate, sub-acute; stamens usually 6; style very short.
Flowering UK: Early June-mid July.