Bog Hair-grass

Bog Hair-grass 
Deschampsia setacea 

They’re found in bogs
and peaty pools: 
dense tufts,
their leaves hair-like, 

purple and pale yellow
spikelets,
the bent awn brown 
and twisted.

They have no value
as pasture:
plants becoming rare
as the wild blue hare. 

 image: Detail from RGBE Herbarium specimen  https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00861991