Field Woodrush - Luzula campestris

Scientific Name: Luzula campestris

English Name: Field Woodrush. Sometimes Good Friday Grass or Sweeps Brush.

French Name: La Luzule champetre

5 Key Characters:

• sparsely hairy.
• although the species is a rush, it has flat blade leaves like a grass, not round like a rush.
• brown and yellow flowers surprisingly conspicuous.
• small knob at the tip of each leaf.
• rarely more than 15 cm high.
  

Lookalikes: Great Woodrush L. sylvatica, which is a much larger and rarer plant.

Habitat: Almost everywhere - grasslands, banks, heathland paths, damp patches in woodland.

Flowering Period: March-April-May-June.

Status: Very common.

Photographed by Loire Valley Nature: