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Carl Farmer |
Widespread but local in wet moorland characterised by deergrass. Fruit 5-6 mm. A low but more or less upright plant, up to 10 cm high Skye ID: Plant has a single spike, male at top, and with only 2-4 fruits. Beware few-flowered specimens of Flea Sedge, which normally has 3-10 fruits, and can be told by its dark brown, not yellowish, ripe fruit, or in the flowering stage by having 2 stigmas, not 3 as the present species does. Other features: Fruit is yellowish, glumes fall off early. Spike has no bract. |
