Galingale - Cyperus longus
Known as Sweet Galingale because of the aromatic smell of its rhizome. It grows to about 80 cm tall and has its spikelets arranged in an umbel. At the base of this umbel is a long, narrow bract.
At the edges of lakes and other bodies of still water.
Flowering July to September
Perennial. Probably originated as an ornamental species and escaped from garden ponds
Now fairly common over much of England at least.
Now fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland. Not included in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire
Graham Calow
Burbage Common and Woods
11 September 2012
David Nicholls
Burbage Common
01 July 2011 Lake on Burbage Common Leics. SP45169508 (taken 7.9.2010),.JPG)
Graham Calow
Burbage Common
07 September 2010
egaten
Burbage Common
13 July 2020
Melinda Bell
Hinckley,Ashby Canal
27 August 2020
Melinda Bell
Hinckley,Ashby Canal
27 August 2020
 Lake on Burbage Common Leics. SP45169508 (taken 7.9.2010),.JPG)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Galingale, Sweet Galingale
- Species group:
- Grasses, Rushes & Sedges
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Poales
- Family:
- Cyperaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 11
- First record:
- 07/09/2010 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 01/08/2022 (Bell, Melinda)
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steven lewis
Belvoir lakes
04 October 2019
Graham Calow
Burbage Common
31 July 2016
steven lewis
Belvoir lakes
04 October 2019
egaten
Burbage Common
13 July 2020
