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Carnation Sedge

Carex panicea

6,500Records since 2000
JunePeak month
76Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb2
Mar14
Apr43
May506
Jun1,722
Jul1,443
Aug913
Sep427
Oct76
Nov12
Dec1

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland1,211
2Worcestershire England826
3Pembrokeshire Wales504
4Perth and Kinross Scotland323
5Argyll and Bute Scotland316
6Powys Wales259
7North Yorkshire England226
8Cumbria England200
9Devon England193
10South Ayrshire Scotland181
11Cambridgeshire England156
12Ceredigion Wales148
13Cornwall England129
14Norfolk England88
15Carmarthenshire Wales83
2,582 England2,392 Scotland1,327 Wales88 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 76 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,500
Peak month
June
Counties with records
76
Scientific name
Carex panicea
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
30,548
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Carex
Name with authority
Carex panicea L.
Contributing datasets
43

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q126235 · GBIF 2724609