Woodrush

Family: rushes. Description: woodrushes are the closest relatives of sedges. They have a rosette of leaves and lacy paniculate inflorescences composed of small membranous flowers.

Native range – the temperate zone of Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and North America. Grows in coniferous and small-leaved, less often broad-leaved forests on rich acidic soils.

A perennial herb forming loose tufts 10–30 cm high. Rhizome oblique, short, ascending, with a fibrous root. The lower part of the stem is covered with brown scale-like leaves. Rosette leaves are flat, linear-lanceolate, 5–10 cm long, about 10 mm wide, with long hairs along the margin. Stem leaves are smaller. The inflorescence at the tip of the stem is spherical and loose. Flowers small, greenish-yellow. Blooms in May. Seeds ripen in June–July. The hairy leaf rosettes of the woodrush partially persist through winter.

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