Triglochin bulbosa L.

Perennials, variable in size; when crushed emitting a pungent smell (like a Jerusalem Artichoke). Roots fibrous and with several larger contractile roots. Rhizome stoloniferous or cormous (when the stolons are arrested in hard soils), often forming cormlets, the fibrous covering hard and sclerotic in dry surroundings or soft or nearly absent in moist conditions. Leaves variable in size, 5-35 cm long and 0.5-2 mm broad, filiform to semi-terete, with a shallow ventral groove, gradually tapering to an acicular apex, expanded below to form an open, semi-amplexicaul sheath, glaucous, succulent; the primary leaves, if present, bract-like, scaly, brown. Inflorescence an erect central, few to many flowered raceme; scape terete, firm; pedicels patent to erocto-patent, decurrent, lengthening in fruit, 2-10 mm long; flowers green with the apiculate tips of the segments often purplish, segments conshiform, 2-3 mm long; stigmas 3, papollose, purple, sessile, 3 outer carpels vestigial, 76 mmner soon lengthening at anthesis and after fertilization. Follicles 5-10 mm long, narrowly ovoid-acuminate to cyndrical, tipped by the 3 persistent, hook-like style-bases, with a very short spur.