Hairy Sedge - Carex hirta

Creeping, tufted plant 30 to 70 cm tall. Roots often much branched leaves and sheaths hairy, and with long beaked, downy fruits. Inflorescence is elongated with 2 or 3 male spikelets at the tip, and several erect, widely spaced oblong female spikelets with long leaf like bracts.

Meadows, damp grassland, rough grassy places, pond margins.

June to September.

Perennial.

Common in Britain except in northern Scotland.

Common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 438 of the 617 tetrads.