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Seen here perching on a Flowering Rush (Butomus umbellatus) waiting for passing females to fly by. The female of this species can lay about 10 eggs per minute for up to 45 minutes and will often submerge her self when laying her eggs into a wide variety of emerging and floating plants. With an adult length off 45mm the Banded and Beautiful Demoiselle are the UK's largest species of Damselflies. A stunning looking species of damselfly that can be seen on the wing from May to September along slow flowing rivers and streams in the UK but rare in northern England and absent from Scotland.
in de sloot bij ons huis, augustus 2022
Butomus umbellatus
NL: Zwanenbloem
E: flowering rush or grass rush
D: Schwanenblume
F: Jonc fleuri ou Butome à ombelle
In ondiep, voedselrijk water. Bloeit eind juni - begin sept. Wijd verspreid in Europa, maar gaat achteruit. In NL nog algemeen, maar een beschermde soort - en heeft alle kwalificaties voor een nationale bloem.
Eng. info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_rush
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My Flickr stream photos best to see on Fluidr
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In Mitteleuropa ist die Schwanenblume vielerorts recht selten geworden.
Sie gedeiht als Sumpfpflanze an Gewässerufern und in Feuchtgebieten.
Die Stiftung Naturschutz Hamburg kürte die Schwanenblume zur Blume des Jahres 2014.
In Central Europe, the grass rush has become quite rare in many places.
It thrives as a swamp plant on water banks and in wetlands.
The Hamburg Nature Conservation Foundation named the Swan Flower the Flower of the Year 2014.
The gardens of Arcen Castle are always a delight to visit. There's much to see for all tastes: formal rose gardens, colorful exhibitions, rambling woods, manicured lawns and many ponds. On the edge of those ponds now many Flowering Rushes, in Dutch called Swanflowers because the pistils are said to resemble those sitting birds. Here a visitor is Macropis europaea, Yellow-loosestrife Bee, lookin for pollen. Just look at the half-open stamen!
Сусак зонтичный.
Butomus umbellatus is the Old World Palearctic and Asian plant species in the family Butomaceae. Common names include flowering rush or grass rush.
In de sloot bij ons huis, juli 2025
Butomus umbellatus
E: flowering rush or grass rush
D: Schwanenblume
F: Jonc fleuri ou Butome à ombelle
In ondiep, voedselrijk water. Bloeit eind juni - begin sept. Wijd verspreid in Europa, maar gaat achteruit. In NL nog algemeen, maar een beschermde soort - en heeft alle kwalificaties voor een nationale bloem.
Eng. info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_rush
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My Flickr stream photos best to see on Fluidr
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I am not a plant person, I can barely tell a daisy from a mum. This beautiful plant was growing on the the shoreline of Wehrspann Lake, south of Omaha. I posted this on Facebook, asking people to ID it, and according to a majority of the good people on Nebraska Through the Lens, this is a Flowering Rush, a species of Butomus. Also known as Grass Rush. Botanical name, Butomus umbellatus. A perennial, they say it's an herb!
in de sloot bij ons huis, augustus 2022
Butomus umbellatus
E: flowering rush or grass rush
D: Schwanenblume
F: Jonc fleuri ou Butome à ombelle
In ondiep, voedselrijk water. Bloeit eind juni - begin sept. Wijd verspreid in Europa, maar gaat achteruit. In NL nog algemeen, maar een beschermde soort - en heeft alle kwalificaties voor een nationale bloem.
Eng. info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_rush
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My Flickr stream photos best to see on Fluidr
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There was a large patch of these spectacularly beautiful aquatic plants in one of the ponds in Chester Zoo Nature Reserve.
Despite spending a lot of time angling on many water bodies around the country I've never seen them before.
Reeds designate a biotope and a plant community in the shallow water and bank edge area of bodies of water. It consists of tall, reed-like plants (reed plants) such as common reeds (Phragmites australis), bulrushes (Typha spec.), porcupines (Sparganium spec.), canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) and water swaths (Glyceria maxima); also from calamus (Acorus calamus), flag iris (Iris pseudacorus), swan flower (Butomus umbellatus), frog spoon (Alisma spec.) and other species.
Röhricht bezeichnet ein Biotop und eine Pflanzengesellschaft im Flachwasser- und Uferrandbereich von Gewässern. Es besteht aus großwüchsigen, schilfartigen Pflanzen (Röhrichtpflanzen) wie Schilfrohr (Phragmites australis), Rohrkolben (Typha spec.), Igelkolben (Sparganium spec.), Rohr-Glanzgras (Phalaris arundinacea) und Wasser-Schwaden (Glyceria maxima); ferner aus Kalmus (Acorus calamus), Sumpf-Schwertlilie (Iris pseudacorus), Schwanenblume (Butomus umbellatus), Froschlöffel (Alisma spec.) und aus weiteren Arten.
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Already in Classical Antiquity this pretty flowering plant was notorious for its sharp leaves. Hence the name 'Butomus', something like 'Ox-cutter' in English; it would not do as animal fodder. But insects remain uncut. Here along a ditch the summer-flowering blossoms is being visited by a Fly and a Hoverfly.
The plant is a rhizomatous, hairless, perennial aquatic plant. Its name is derived from Greek bous, meaning "cow", "ox" etc. and tome, a cut (the verb 'temnein' meaning "to cut"), which refers to the plant's swordlike leaves.
...It is native to Old World continents and grows on the margins of still and slowly moving water down to a depth of about 3 m. It has pink flowers. Introduced into North America as an ornamental plant it has now become a serious invasive weed in the Great Lakes area and in parts of the Pacific Northwest.[6] In Israel, one of its native countries, it is an endangered species due to the dwindling of its habitat. It can also be found in Great Britain locally, for example at the Caldicot and Wentloog Levels... [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butomus_umbellatus]