Remote Sedge - Carex remota

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Description

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.

Identification difficulty
Habitat

Damp woodland, especially where water collects in winter.

When to see it

June to August.

Life History

Perennial.

UK Status

Fairly frequent in Britain, but scarcer in northern and western Scotland.

VC55 Status

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 70 of the 617 tetrads.

  • David Nicholls
    Ulverscroft
    14 July 2011
  • David Nicholls
    Thornton Reservoir
    19 July 2018
    densely tufted
  • David Nicholls
    Ulverscroft
    14 July 2011
    very long, leaf like bracts
  • Graham Calow
    Burbage Common and Woods
    13 June 2011
  • PhilipCrowfoot
    Burbage Common
    09 July 2016
  • martindgrimes
    Pickworth Wood
    15 June 2017

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

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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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  • David Nicholls
    The Brand, Woodhouse
    15 June 2013
  • David Nicholls
    Bradgate Park
    05 July 2013
  • David Gould
    fields near Fosse Park
    08 June 2018
  • Graham Calow
    Sapcote
    23 July 2008
  • Graham Calow
    Sapcote
    23 July 2008
  • Steve Mathers
    Ulverscroft NR
    13 June 2017
  • Graham Calow
    Riverside, Witherley
    03/07/2017
  • David Gould
    Owston Woods
    14 June 2018