Remote Sedge - Carex remota
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 NichollsUlverscroft14 July 2011
David NichollsThornton Reservoir19 July 2018densely tufted
David NichollsUlverscroft14 July 2011very long, leaf like bracts
Graham CalowBurbage Common and Woods13 June 2011
PhilipCrowfootBurbage Common09 July 2016
martindgrimesPickworth Wood15 June 2017
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David NichollsThe Brand, Woodhouse15 June 2013
David NichollsBradgate Park05 July 2013
David Gouldfields near Fosse Park08 June 2018 Freeholt Wood Sapcote SP 4615 9399 (taken 23.7.2008).JPG)
Graham CalowSapcote23 July 2008 Freeholt Wood Sapcote SP 4615 9399 (taken 23.7.2008),.JPG)
Graham CalowSapcote23 July 2008
Steve MathersUlverscroft NR13 June 2017
Graham CalowRiverside, Witherley03/07/2017
David GouldOwston Woods14 June 2018
 Freeholt Wood Sapcote SP 4615 9399 (taken 23.7.2008).JPG)
 Freeholt Wood Sapcote SP 4615 9399 (taken 23.7.2008),.JPG)
