95 Scheuchzeria palustris L.

This species is widely distributed in Eurasia and N. America. The species s. str. (subsp. palustris) occurs in Eurasia, subsp. americana (Fem.) Hult. in N. America. The species belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. I, p. 158 and map 149). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 27.