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.
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