Irish wildflowers sitemap More: Sedges, Club-rushes

Carex pendula

Pendulous Sedge
Carex pendula
Cíb chrom
Family: Cyperaceae

Flowering June-July. Perennial. Native, also garden escape.

Very distinctive stout, tufted sedge with flowering stems to 150cm. Drooping flower-spikes to 15cm long, sheathing leaf-like bracts. Can seed prolifically. Flat dark-green leaves, shorter than stems.

Usually found on heavy, damp, clay soils. Shady woodland, stream edges, roadsides. Native but also found as an introduced garden escape or discard. Less frequent in W and central Ireland.


     



Pendulous Sedge

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