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Alpine bulrush

TRICHOPHORUM ALPINUM

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Alpine bulrush

TRICHOPHORUM ALPINUM

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The Alpine bulrush is low-growing and delicate perennial sedge. Its small spike flowers are located at the top of its stems and they are covered with wool-like tufts of bristles. It forms small tussocks.

The Alpine bulrush is a plant of open fens and paludifying shores that are medium or rich in nutrients. Its area of distribution covers the northern parts of Eurasia and North America.

It is one of the plants whose occurrence indicates the nutrient level of the peatland because it does not grow on nutrient-poor sites.

The Alpine bulrush is classified as a least concern species and thus requires no conservation measures to secure its occurrence.

Alpine bulrush

TRICHOPHORUM ALPINUM

wooddeadwoodstage of developmentkey biotopes
aspen
aspen
1-5y
grove
birch
birch
6-20y
ridge
pine
pine
21-50y
rock
spruce
spruce
51-100y
spring
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other
stream
swamp
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