Description: Herb forming pin-cushions, cushions-rings, and cushions (van Royen); Perennial, softly herbaceous, never becoming purplish, forming dense cushions; Stems numerous, branching, with numerous adventitious roots.
Habitat: bogs; Winter-growing evergreen perennial of habitats with the water table close to the surface throughout the year, from coastal swamps to alpine peat bogs
Form of cushion | TC | Tufted cushion, densely caespitose |
Compactness | 1 | Compact, hard (peat-accumulating) |
Variability | 0_1 | Intermediate |
Root system | A | Numerous adventious roots |
Woodiness | 0 | Herbaceaous |
Thorniness | 0 | No |
Succulence | 0 | No |
Flowers | 1 | Short peduncle |