Short to medium tufted, erect plant reaching 40 or 50 cm. Leaves deeply grooved at base, only 2 mm wide with a short, fairly blunt ligule. Flower 2 to 3 mm long in a lax spike, green/ purple and often fringed.

Either obtain confirmation from a County Recorder before submitting a record, or submit detailed images showing key features.  We recommend that you take and retain a specimen; the County Recorder may wish to see this for confirmation. 

It is found in wet meadows, fens, stream banks and damp grassland usually on calcareous soils.

Flowering time: June and July.

Perennial.

It occurs locally in the British Isles being more common in the north and in Wales.

Near scarce in Leicestershire and Rutland. 

It was listed in the previous VC55 Rare Plant Register (Jeeves 2011), but is not on the current Register (Hall & Woodward, 2022)