Scientific Name: Luzula modesta
Common Name: bog woodrush
Family Classification (Clade): Monocots
Family: Juncaceae
Form Description: A tufted perennial forming long slender stolons at or just below surface or ground.
Flowers: 1-8 flowers in a single narrow-oblong spike or in 2-3 adjacent groups.
Fruit: Nut – pale yellowish-brown with margins of the valves darker. Seeds about 1mm long, dark purplish-brown to black.
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Habitat Notes
Local in damp sub-alpine habitats, in areas of seepage often growing with mosses in the Central Highlands and at Ben Lomond.
Site Tolerance
Exposed, Moist, Waterlogged
Soil Tolerance
Fertile, Loam, Nutrient-poor, Poorly-drained, Well-drained
Frost Tolerance
Hardy
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Propagation Method
Seed Information
Seed Treatment Method
Bog Method The seeds of many wetland species need to be kept wet to germinate. Punch a hole in the side of a recycled polyfoam box so that it holds water to the required depth. Sit the tubes in the box to germinate. Once germinated, punch holes in the bottom of the box to allow drainage.
Seed Treatment Notes
Reportedly grown from seed, although some growers have poor results. Some success has been achieved using the bog method. Germination is slow and erratic. The critical factor is probably temperature but more research is needed.