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Carl Farmer |
Frequent in boggy ground and wet moorland. Fond of limestone. Fruit c 4-6 mm long. Skye ID: Has a single spike of which the top half is male and looks like a normal male sedge spike, while the lower half consists of about 3-10 well-separated female flowers/fruits, deflexed when ripe. Can only be confused with Few-flowered Sedge which is similar but has normally only 2-3 fruits. Flea Sedge has dark brown fruit, when ripe, and 2 stigmas, Few-flowered has yellowish fruit and 3 stigmas. The rare Rock Sedge also has 3 stigmas, and its fruit are under 3.5 mm long and do not become deflexed. Other features: Spike has no bract. Glumes fall off fruit when ripe. Leaves are thread-like and grooved. |
