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SLENDER TUFTED-SEDGE

Carex acuta

Sedge Club- & Spike-Rush Family [Cyperaceae]

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category8Grasses
 		 status
statusZnative
 		 flower
flower8cream
male		 flower
flower8brown
female		 petals
petalsZ0
 		 type
typeZspiked
 		 stem
stem8triangular
 		 stem
stem8ribbed
 		 sex
sexZmonoecious
 

10th April 2015, Crymlyn Bog, Glamorganshire. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone
The plant grows up to 1.2m long, here near water with one of the Horsetails (probably Water Horsetail) on the right growing in the water.


10th April 2015, Crymlyn Bog, Glamorganshire. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone
The male florets are at the summit here with orange anthers; the female ones are below with paler and shorter styles - which are in pairs [The similarly aquatic Greater Pond-Sedge and Lesser Pond-Sedge have styles in threes].


10th April 2015, Crymlyn Bog, Glamorganshire. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone


10th April 2015, Crymlyn Bog, Glamorganshire. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone
Male spikes with orange stamens; female spikes with shorter and pale styles.

The greyish-green (glaucous) leaves are triangular in cross-section (as in most species of Sedge). They are also ribbed.



10th April 2015, Crymlyn Bog, Glamorganshire. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone


10th April 2015, Crymlyn Bog, Glamorganshire. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone


unknown date, watermeadow, Sandown Bridge. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone


unknown date, watermeadow, Sandown Bridge. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone
The leaves


unknown date, watermeadow, Sandown Bridge. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone
The leaves


30th May 2018, watermeadow, Sandown Bridge. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone
Herbarium of the fruit


30th May 2018, watermeadow, Sandown Bridge. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone
Herbarium of the leaves


30th May 2018, watermeadow, Sandown Bridge. Photo: (CC by 2.0) Geoff Toone
Herbarium of the leaves

No relation to : Tufted Hair-grass (Deschampsia cespitosa), Tufted Loosestrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora), Tufted Forget-me-not (Myosotis laxa), Tufted Saxifrage (Saxifraga cespitosa) nor to Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca) [plants with similar names belonging to differing families].

Not to be semantically confused with : Carex acutiformis (Lesser Pond-Sedge) [another Carex species with similar name]

  Carex acuta  ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ Cyperaceae  

Distribution
family8Sedge Club- & Spike-Rush family8Cyperaceae
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SLENDER TUFTED-SEDGE

Carex acuta

Sedge Club- & Spike-Rush Family [Cyperaceae]