This section is from the book "British Wild Flowers In The Four Seasons", by Thomas Moore. Also available from Amazon: British Wild Flowers.
B. umbellatus: aquatic; leaves long, erect, triangular; flower-stem leafless, 2-4 feet high, rush-like, bearing a large umbel of showy, rose-coloured flowers, the perianth an inch across, of six ovate, spreading segments. - Watery ditches and sides of rivers. - Fl. June, July.
 
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