Elegant plant, sterile stem from 30 to 60 cm in length, with delicate branches, drooping downward. Fertile stems shorter with cone bearing the spore casings.

Sheaths with 3 to 6 teeths, well separated

In spring, growth of the fertile stems (disappearing after some weeks) and of the sterile ones (up to fall)

wet meadows, swamps, up to 1600 m in altitude

Not common in Vercors : vallon de la Fauge.