Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.

Spice In the field

Family: CYPERACEAE

Genus: Isolepis

Sinònims: Scirpus cernuus Vahl

Catalan common name: Fenàs d'aigua.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Some regions

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte. Terophyte.

Habitats: Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Therophytic silicolous fields. Humid soils.

Characteristics: A small herb with filiform stems and leaves, it forms a spikelet at the top of the stems, sometimes it is outgrown by a small bract and then it seems as if the inflorescence is lateral. It lives along the edges of moist zones.