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Remote Sedge - Carex remota
Tufted plant with short rhizomes, forming small tussocks with bright green leaves up to 30 cm tall. Inflorescence is very long (up to 1/3rd of stem length). With stalkless green spikelets well spaced out, the lower ones with very long, leaf like bracts.
Damp woodland, especially where water collects in winter.
June to August.
Perennial.
Fairly frequent in Britain, but scarcer in northern and western Scotland.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 70 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Remote Sedge
- Species group:
- Grasses, Rushes & Sedges
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Poales
- Family:
- Cyperaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 59
- First record:
- 01/07/1998 (John Mousley)
- Last record:
- 21/06/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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