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 |