Rare Plant Register for Huntingdonshire - Botanical Society of the ...

Carex divulsa Stokes ssp. divulsa
Grey Sedge
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (3 sites, 3 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Caldecote Wood TL136880 2003 (KW)
Midloe Wood TL153648 2006 (TW)
Monks Wood SSSI TL191799 2007 (MM)
This is a lowland sedge that is largely restricted to southern England (Jermy et al. 2007). In
Huntingdonshire it is a rare species of hedge banks, green lanes and ancient woodland.
Carex echinata Murray
Star Sedge
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad)
Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC,
Compartment 81
Site Grid Reference Last Record
16
TL22588355 2011 (MM)
This species is abundant in the north and west of Britain and on wet sandy heaths in the
south and east. It is rarer in the Midlands owing to losses through drainage (Jermy et al.
2007).
Carex lasiocarpa Ehrh.
Slender Sedge
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Rare (1 site, 1 tetrad)
Woodwalton Fen SSSI & SAC:
Compartment 37
Compartment 39
Compartment 41
Site Grid Reference Last Record
TL232852 (centroid)
TL23458521
TL227851
2010 (MM)
2010 (MM)
2010 (MiB)
This species is still widespread in Scotland, Wales and north-west England but was never
common and is now much reduced over the rest of its English range, including in the Fens of
East Anglia.
Carex leporina L.
Oval Sedge
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: Scarce (4 sites, 5 tetrads)
Site Grid Reference Last Record
Brampton Wood SSSI TL181698 2008 (DB)