An extinct water-lily, Euryale limburgensis, belongs to a monotypic genus now confined to Assam and China; an extinct sedge, Dulichium vespiforme, belongs to a genus only living in America, though the only living species once flourished also in Denmark; an extinct species of water-aloe (Stratiotes elegans) makes a third genus, represented only by a single living species, which was evidently better represented in Pliocene times.
And this why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering, Tho the sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing.
Areas of past peat cutting provide the main interest with open water with floating pondweed, bottle sedge and cowbane.
Behind these are areas of sedge dominated fen which can often be species rich.
Breeding birds of the river margins include sedge warbler, whitethroat and reed bunting, while skylark breeds on the meadow.
Each plant bears a bright rose-purple flower that shows well on its bed of Sphagnum, Cranberry, and Sedge.
Fishing slightly up and across with a cdc sedge pupa I managed to hook the first two grayling and suddenly everything was alright.
In summer, warblers voice their scratchy songs and nest in the reed and sedge beds.
In the distance is a working sedge field, cut every three years in the summer.
In the typical rushy grassland sedges are sparse, but in the more diverse areas glaucous sedge is prominent.
Northern species include yellow saxifrage Saxifraga aizoides and hair sedge Carex capillaris, both of which are locally abundant in flushed grasslands at Inchrory.
Notable plants include sneezewort, star sedge, harebell and bluebell with locally rare lesser skullcap being of particular interest.
On Pen-y-ghent either mat-grass or purple moor-grass dominate the grassland and higher up this contains stiff sedge Carex bigelowii.
Other uncommon species may occur, such as hair sedge Carex capillaris, sheathed sedge C. vaginata and variegated horsetail equisetum variegatum.
Patches of acid peat with heather and acid grasses or with cotton sedge are found on the remnants of the former bogs.
Rare plants such as large bitter cress, lanceolate water plantain and elongated sedge grow where the wood is wettest.
Sedge fen - low nutrients, high diversity Saw sedge fen - low nutrients, high diversity Saw sedge is the main plant species in these areas.
Sedge patterns work well once the weather warms as spring moves into summer.
Shallow pools have yet another sundew, along with spike rush, bog sedge, and the spectacular bogbean.
Species found include slender ground hopper, great green bush cricket, brown argus, reed and sedge warblers and flowering rush.
Species include bottle sedge, common cotton sedge, devil's-bit scabious and marsh violet growing over layers of Sphagnum mosses and brown mosses.
Take a stroll around Doxey in the spring to hear sedge warblers, reed bunting and other warblers singing.
Taking first this most northerly locality, in Grinnell Land, we find the flora to comprise 2 horsetails, i i Conifers (including the living Pinus Abies), 2 grasses, a sedge, 2 poplars, a willow, 2 birches, 2 hazels, an elm, a Viburnum, a water-lily, and a lime.
The flushes are typically dominated by a range of small sedges such as carnation sedge and long-stalked yellow sedge.
The meadow floods regularly, as indicated by the damp-loving grasses, including the uncommon brown sedge.
The rare broad-leaved cotton sedge also occurs below the Belmore cliffs.
The reedbeds and tall fen vegetation support nesting sedge and reed warblers as well as numerous cuckoos.
The resident Cetti 's warbler has been singing, and soon the migrant reed warblers and sedge warblers will have arrived.
The southern part is dry, with poor bog moss cover, short common heather, deer sedge, cross-leaved heath and Cladonia lichens.
The Trust manages the sedge bed close to the car park.
The wood contains several scarce and locally distributed grasses, sedges and rushes including hairy woodrush, pendulous sedge and wood millet.
This has a low sedge sward, dominated by carnation sedge, with abundant common yellow sedge and occasionally flea sedge.
Typical of some sections of the river are the distinctive towers of the great tussock sedge.
Uncommon plants such as saw sedge, greater meadow rue and marsh valerian are found in the meadow.
Uncommon species present include cranberry, bog sedge and white sedge.
We added quite a few new grass and sedge species to the lists.