Flood turf

Flooding plumes ( Glyceria fluitans ); Landform and flooding form (left)

As flood lawn alternately leaving, so be amphibious vegetation structures of predominantly niedrigerwüchsigen grasses , made up, usually in small bodies of water or in wet grassland are. Corresponding locations are mostly periodically flooded, but at other times (especially in midsummer) they also dry out more or less regularly. The most typical Central European representative in flood turf societies is the flooding swath ( Glyceria fluitans ; see photo). Various types of grass of the genera Alopecurus (especially kinky foxtail , Alopecurus geniculatus and red-yellow foxtail , A. aequalis ) as well as agrostis (including white ostrich grass , Agrostis stolonifera var. Palustris and dog ostrich grass , A. canina ) are also included.