Description: A densely-tufted wiry grass, about 8 inches high, producing unbranched flower-spikes which carry the single-flowered spikelets along one side only, giving this species a unique and easily recognisable appearance.

It is extremely common in poor, acid, peaty moorland in areas like the Sperrins and Mourne Mountains.

All names: Nardus stricta L.

Distribution Map from NBN: Nardus stricta at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Nardus stricta at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.