List of Sedges, Rushes, Horsetails and Ferns
recorded on Brook Meadow in Year 2020
C = Common L = Localised and infrequent
| SEDGES = 13 | LOCATION | ||
| Distant Sedge** | Carex distans | Lumley area + orchid area | C |
| Remote Sedge | Carex remota | sluice gate + river bank north bridge | L |
| Divided Sedge | Carex divisa | Lumley area | C |
| False Fox Sedge | Carex otrubae | Lumley area, centre meadow South Meadow. | C |
| Glaucous Sedge | Carex flacca | Lumley area | L |
| Lesser Pond Sedge | Carex acutiformis | river bank | C |
| Greater Pond Sedge | Carex riparia | Lumley area | C |
| Hairy Sedge | Carex hirta | centre meadow | L |
| Pendulous Sedge | Carex pendula | Palmer’s Road Copse riverbank | C |
| Spiked Sedge | Carex spicata | Lumley area by Alder sapling | L |
| Grey Sedge | Carex divulsa ssp divulsa | Lumley Road | L |
| Common Spike-rush | Eleocharis palustris | Lumley area + centre meadow | C |
| Sea Club-rush | Bolboschoenus maritimus | south east corner | L |
| RUSHES = 4 | |||
| Hard Rush | Juncus inflexus | General | C |
| Jointed Rush | Juncus articulatus | orchid + Lumley area | C |
| Sharp-flowered Rush | Juncus acutiflorus | Lumley area | C |
| Toad Rush | Juncus bufonius | Lumley Stream path + “Lumley puddle” | L |
| HORSETAILS 1 | |||
| Field Horsetail | Equisetum arvense | orchid area + Lumley area | C |
| FERNS = 3 | |||
| Intermediate Polypody | Polypodium interjectum | Under north bridge – first seen 22-Oct-12 | L |
| Male Fern | Dryopteris filix-mas | Lumley Stream + Lumley copse + south bridge | L |
| Hart’s-tongue | Phyllitis scolopendrium | Railway embankment | L |