Carex otrubae
Family : Cyperaceae
False Fox-sedge
12/119 : Native
Usually in wet places, often in grass or ditches. On old railway land to the east of Hessle where it is wet.

A remarkable record near to the Humber Dock Basin [TA 09 28] where a single plant has been growing between the large sandstone blocks of the quayside for several years.

Herbarium material: HLU : Cottingham 1929, 1949 {R Good}.

R Middleton 2000

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