The Flat Trim Plant

The flat trim (Blysmus compressus, synononiemen: cariciformis and Scirpus Scirpus planifolius) is a perennial plant, which belongs to the cypergrassenfamilie (Cyperaceae). The species is on the Dutch Red List of rare plants and moderately decreased. The plant is native to Eurasia.


The plant is 10-45 cm tall and short forms, straw brown, a few millimeters thick rhizomes. The light to dark brown, erect or ascending stems are 0.5 to 1.5 mm thick. They are roundish cross section is compressed and the top triangular stump. The 3-4 mm wide, gray to green grass leaves are up to the middle of the stem and are at the bottom keeled. The leaf edge is rough. The leaf sheath is closed and netnervig. The tongue (ligule) is short and blunt.


The flat trim blooms from May to September. At the end of the flower stalk is a kafjesachtig bract that exceeds the inflorescence. The red-brown inflorescence is a spike 1-4 x 0.8-1.2 cm, which in two rows of five to twelve are spikelets. The reddish brown, pointed, about 4 mm long kafjes are oblong-lanceolate, have five to seven veins, a clear edge and a narrow green keel. The flower container is three to six rough brushes. Per flower, three stamens and two stamps.


The chestnut brown, flat-reverse-ovoid fruit is a nut, that without the long beak 2 mm long. At the base is the stem nut shaped narrowed.


The plant is found on wet, low fertilized meadows and dune valleys.




Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platte_bies

See also: International Flower Delivery, Florist