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Uncommon, in loch edges or wet ground including ditches, likes reedy places, can be acid or alkaline but not too poor in nutrients. Male spikes c 3-7 cm long, female spikes c 1-3 cm. Fruit c 3.5-4.5 mm long including beak c 0.5-1 mm. Skye ID: Male spikes 1-3, female spikes 1-3, upright, widely spaced and almost unstalked. Lowest bract often longer than inflorescence. Fruit downy, beak deeply notched. Pill Sedge has smaller fruit and only 1 male spike. Other features: Often does not flower, and may be id'd with some degree of probability by the leaves. They are greyish-green, inrolled and little more than 1 mm wide, stiff and tapering to a long spine-like point, the lower ones having purplish or reddish-brown sheaths at the base. |
