When starting to try to identify sedges you always want to see one with distinctive features. This is such a sedge. Only small, hardly ever much more than 30 cm tall, this rather attractive little sedge grows in acid or neutral boggy areas and the fruits do look star shaped as the name suggests.
Stream near Sychnant Pass, Conway 26th June 2005
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Added August 27th 2005