The spike rushes need careful examination before venturing an identification because they have very few distinctive features. This one is tufted and has a flowering spike on the end of a thin green filament about 10 to 20 cm tall but so do some other spike rushes. This was, fortunately for me, identified by our expert botanist guide on a WFS trip to Teesdale. "Few-flowered" may be its name but this plant had more than 20 spikes so if you didn't know you'd expect it to be called Many-flowered Spike-rush.
Near Cronkly Bridge, Teesdale, 22nd June 2005
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