Slender Tufted-sedge - Carex acuta
This sedge can reach a metre in height, it has long glaucous leaves and a rough sharply three angled stem. It has long far creeping rhizomes and is tuft forming.
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River and canal banks, pond margins
Fruiting June and July.
Perennial
Widespread in most of England and Wales, but more scare in the south west of England and in Scotland.
Local in Leicestershire and Rutland, being more common in the west of our region than the east. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 43 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Slender Tufted-sedge, Acute Sedge
- Species group:
- Grasses, Rushes & Sedges
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Poales
- Family:
- Cyperaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 10/05/2007 (Dave Wood)
- Last record:
- 15/06/2013 (Parry, Russell)
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