27/52 Soft Rush Seed Head
Latin name: "Juncus effusus"
Irish name: Geataire
The soft rush is and invasive plant of damp or wet acidic ground. It is found in fields, roadsides, ditches, marshes, water edges, and heaths and bog-land.
It grows in clumps to about 1 metre high. The flower heads (each containing many flowers) are borne on the sides of the grass-like leaves, and are usually loose and open but can be more compact, and are more or less spherical. The seeds are linear-oblong to elliptic in shape.
27/52 Soft Rush Seed Head
Latin name: "Juncus effusus"
Irish name: Geataire
The soft rush is and invasive plant of damp or wet acidic ground. It is found in fields, roadsides, ditches, marshes, water edges, and heaths and bog-land.
It grows in clumps to about 1 metre high. The flower heads (each containing many flowers) are borne on the sides of the grass-like leaves, and are usually loose and open but can be more compact, and are more or less spherical. The seeds are linear-oblong to elliptic in shape.