Photo © John Birks |
Occasional in alkaline grassland Male spike c 10-15 mm long, female c 5-12 mm. Fruit c 2-3 mm including beak 0.2-0.3 mm. Stems usually < 15 mm tall. Skye ID: One male spike above 1-3 female spikes, all crowded together and almost unstalked. Fruit downy (use 10x lens). Told from Pill Sedge by the lowest bract of the infloresence encircling the stem with a short sheath at its base. Other features: The earliest sedge to flower. A short plant with dark green shiny outward-curving leaves in small tufts a short distance apart connected by underground rhizomes. Usually numerous stems are found scattered close together in the typical fashion of a rhizomatous plant, whereas Pill Sedge is densely tufted but the tufts not particularly close to each other or numerous in any given spot. |
