Scientific name: Typha angustifolia L.
Common name: Lesser Bulrush
Description
Habit: Tall, erect, reed-like, hairless aquatic or semi-aquatic perennials. Stems usually not more than 200cm, slender. Similar to T. latifolia but smaller.
Leaves: Alternate, simple, linear, entire, sessile with sheathing base, without stipules, 6-8mm wide, not pale greyish-green, somewhat channelled; leaf-sheaths usually closed at throat; sheath-margins free but parallel, usually auriculate above, lamina dark green.
Flowers: Monoecious, unisexual, hypogynous, actinomorphic; very numerous, in a dense, cylindrical spike, the upper part consisting of male flowers, with 1-5 stamens with fused filaments, the lower part of female flowers, with 1 1-celled, stalked ovary with 1 ovule, style 1, stigma lanceolate to linear; perianth represented by numerous hairs; flowers somewhat shorter than leaves.
Fruits: A small 1-seeded capsule; seeds 1-1.3mm.
Habitat: Lake-margins and pools, mainly in the North half.
Distribution: Rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No