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Arrow-Grass Family

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Arrow-Grass Family:-

Arrow-Grass Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Wild Flower Habitat Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Marsh Arrow-Grass

Triglochin palustris

(Triglochin palustre)

May-August

This slender, perennial, rhizomatous herb occurs in open, damp, grassy or marshy places, often on calcareous substrates. Habitats include wet meadows and rush-pastures, heaths, fens, springs and flushes, saltmarsh fringes flushed with fresh water, and river shingle in upland areas. 0-970 m (Beinn Heasgarnich, Mid Perth).

Flower from Heights of Kinlochave on 23 June

Flowers from County Clare

Foliage from Heights of Kinlochave on 23 June

Form from Heights of Kinlochave on 23 June

Sea Arrow-Grass

Triglochin maritima

(Triglochin maritimum)

May-August

A rhizomatous perennial herb of saline habitats. It is abundant in coastal and estuarine saltmarshes, flushed coastal rocks and cliff edges subject to sea spray, and the banks of tidal rivers. Inland, it occurs in brackish pastures as, for example, over saline Keuper beds in Cheshire, and at one site in Hampshire, in flushed turf on calcareous clay. Very rarely, it grows alongside salt-treated roads. Lowland

Flower from Achmelvich in Sutherland on 20 June

Flowers from Cuxton in Kent on 17 June

Foliage from Achmelvich on 20 June

Form from Achmelvich on 20 June

Water Hawthorn

Aponogeton distachyos

April-October

A tuberous perennial which grows as an emergent aquatic in water up to 2 m deep. It may persist for many years in lakes and ponds as a relic of cultivation, or at sites where it is introduced into the wild. It has been known to reproduce by seed in Britain, but shows little sign of spreading to new sites without human assistance. Lowland.

Flower from Wisley on 19 April

Flowers

Foliage

Form