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Triglochin palustris
Also called Marsh Arrow Grass, Slender Arrowgrass
Marsh arrowgrass is a slender perennial herb of wet grassland, fens and meadows, usually on lime-rich soils, found across northern regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It needs consistently wet or saturated ground to grow well.
Triglochin palustris or marsh arrowgrass is a species of flowering plant in the arrowgrass family Juncaginaceae. It is found in damp grassland usually on calcareous soils, fens and meadows. The species epithet palustris is Latin for "of the marsh" and indicates its common habitat. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere. It can be found locally in the British Isles especially the north.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
