Photographs: Toormore, Co.Cork |
Sea Arrowgrass Narrow racemes of small, greenish-pink flowers. Fruit with 6 carpels. Fleshy basal leaves. Linear, upperside flat near base, rounded beneath. Hairless. Height: To 60 cm. Habitat: Coastal and estuarine salt-marshes. Similar: Marsh Arrowgrass, T. palustre. Leaves usually deep-furrowed upperside at base. Laxer flower spike, fruit with 3 carpels, very narrow at base. Calcareous marshes, wet pastures. |
Photograph above: Sherkin Island, Co.Cork