Carex rostrata   Bottle Sedge

 

 

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Bottle Sedge typically grows actually in the water of a pond or bog pool and has these light green spikes of fruit which remind some people of a bottle brush. The seed cases or utricles trap air inside them to help the flowering spike float in deep water.

Fen Bog North Yorkshire 11th June 2005

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Added on 13th June 2005