Cladium mariscus

Bins cutting ( Cladium mariscus )

Called The bins cutting ( Cladium mariscus ), also cutting Ried or cutting, a marsh plant of the family of sour grass plants is ( Cyperaceae ). The species is a perennial evergreen and Kryptophyt or hydrophyte. Your very sharply toothed, rigid, edged leaves can cause injury when touched.

Dissemination

The bins cutting usually occurs at the edges of water bodies. Such very wet places are flooded frequently seasonal, or may temporarily dry out. Most are relatively small still waters such as lakes, ponds, pools or ditches. However, the plant is also found in wastelands of fens. It prefers muddy, calcareous soil. In Germany, their stocks are threatened, inter alia, by the lowering of the water table and the cultivation of peatlands. In many states it is therefore also on the Red List of vascular plants. It occurs in all parts of Germany still relatively rare. Its distribution area extends from Central Europe to West Asia. There it is found only in the temperate zones of the plains. Some larger collections there are on the island of Gotland in cutting reed swamps ( Agmyr ). The grass, Swedish Ag, was used there earlier in the ceiling of the roofs of houses and sheep shelters.

Identifying

The bins cutting is about 80 cm to 2 m tall, has long streamers and usually forms at waters edge large, dense stands out. The thick, somewhat triangular stem is leafy up to the inflorescence. The leaves are serrated between 0.7 cm and 1.5 cm wide and at the edge very sharp. The inconspicuous individual flowers are in a terminal, capitula shaped Spirre, which also forms more pendent Nebenspirren. This is up to 70 cm long. Every single flower has three scars.