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| Life form: |
| Geophyte |
| Stems: |
| Fleshy rhizomes; up to 150 cm; cylindrical stalks |
| Leaves: |
| Rosette arrangement, alternate, three angled, fleshy, twisted ends |
| Flowers: |
| 3 large pink petals; 3 sepals under the petals are also pink and look like small petals; Inflorescences with 20-25 flowers |
| Fruits / pods: |
| Dark brown, beaked fruits, 1 cm long, and split at maturity to release the seeds |
| Habitat: |
| Streams, ponds, ditches, in nutrient-rich lakes |
| Distribution: |
| Quite common in southern, central Sweden, and Norrland coast, in the rest of the country rare or absent |
Derivation of the botanical name:
Butomus, bous, ox; temmo, to cut; in allusion to the sharp leaf margins; boutomus, boutomon was the ancient Greek name for a sedge.
umbellatus, furnished with umbels.
- The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
Flowering-rush spreads through rhizomes and rhizome branches that break off to form new plants.
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