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Sedge Club- & Spike-Rush Family [Cyperaceae] |
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28th June 2014, Teesdale. | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
The plant is short, up to 20cm, but occasionally up to 40cm. It is smooth and 3 sided but the 3 angles are very blunt indeed. It also has a narrow oval channel up the centre. The bottle-shaped utrical is 2.5 to 3mm long with a tapering narrow beak 0.3 to 1mm long.
The male spikelet is between 5 to 10mm long which is unusually for sedges overtopped by 2 to 4 female spikelets which have but few florets. |
Not to be semantically confused with : Hairy Sedge (Carex hirta) [a plant with similar name and in the same genus: Carex] It is a quite rare [RR] to be found in the North Pennines and the Scottish islands in basic soils or calcareous flushes and bogs which are rich in minerals (although the book says not which kind of minerals but one presumes alkaline ones).
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Sedge Club- & Spike-Rush Family [Cyperaceae] |