After a busy week, I went down with my camera to see what I could see and spotted a clump of strange grass flowers on the ramp. The tuft was quite short – a very unassuming clump of grass, apart from the flowers.
The field wood-rush grows to around 15cm with short runners, slim leaves, and flowers with clusters of florets on the end of bunches of short stalks. The flowers of grasses are known as panicles. These flowers are reddish and ‘oat-shaped’ with cream tips. This perennial likes moist short-grass habitats and flowers from March to June.