Eriophorum gracile, Koch ex Roth

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 281

3. E. gracile Koch ex Roth , Catalecta Bot. 2: 259 (1800).

Plant rhizomatous; stems 25-60 cm, slender, trigonous, leafy only in lower half. Leaves 1-2 mm wide, 3-angled, slightly canaliculate on adaxial side; lamina of cauline leaf rarely more than half as long as the close-fitting sheath; ligule short. Spikelets 3-6, more or less drooping; peduncles trigonous, finely scabrid; bracts 1-2, shorter than spike, brownish. Glumes ovate, several- veined, yellowish- or greenish-brown tinged with grey; margins not hyaline. Bristles c. 20 mm, white, entire at apex; anthers 1-5-2 mm. Nut 2-5-3 mm, ellipsoid-cylindrical, yellowish-brown. Marshes, bogs, lake-margins and wet woods. Europe southwards to the Pyrenees, N. Italy and S. Bulgaria. Au Be Br Bu Cz Da Fe Ga Ge Hb He Ho Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, E) Su.