Luzula campestris

Field Wood-rush ( Luzula campestris )

The Field Wood-rush ( Luzula campestris ), also called Hasenbrot or Common Marbel, is a plant which belongs to the family of the Rushes ( Juncaceae ).

Distribution and location

The natural range of the bins crop covers Europe and North West Africa. She is now in place everywhere. It grows in moderately dry sand and silicate Magerrasen, fresh meadows and pastures, dwarf shrub heath and Nardus grasslands, even in wet meadows.

Description

The field wood rush is a deciduous, perennial, Hemikryptophyt with lockerrasigem growth. It reaches heights of growth 5-30 centimeters and spreads with short to long underground runners. The stems grow upright rigid. The basal leaves are grassy and wide vary by location. The leaf blades are ciliated and blunt at the end.

The compact, upright inflorescence consists of two to five, rarely more, sitting or stalked, capitate multifloral spikelet, spikelets to which at least one fruit maturity is significantly bent. The upper stem leaves are about as long as the inflorescence. The tepals are pointed up to 3 millimeters long and lanceolate. They are about the same size and reddish to brown in color with white skin edge. The anthers are about four times as long as the stamens. The stylus is longer than the ovary. The fruit is egg-shaped with a short blunt tip. She is brown and about as long as the petals. The 1.7 -millimeter-long seeds carry large, nearly 1 millimeter wide trailer ( elaiosomes ). The field wood rush is an early bloomer and blooms in March and April.

Inflorescence

Seeds with elaiosomes

Ecology

The field wood rush is a half- light plant. Your ecological focus is on acid, calcium-poor, nitrogen-poor to - poorest, dry to moist soils. The long-lived seeds can be spread by ants ( myrmecochory ) and are often eaten by animals ( endozoochory ) or stay due to their slight adhesive effect on the skin or in the feathers stick of animals ( Epizoochorie ).