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Glaucous Sedge

Carex flacca

7,387Records since 2000
JunePeak month
105Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan14
Feb21
Mar35
Apr345
May1,069
Jun1,798
Jul1,401
Aug875
Sep373
Oct86
Nov23
Dec10

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,043
2North Yorkshire England388
3Highland Scotland319
4Cambridgeshire England197
5Pembrokeshire Wales184
6Herefordshire, County of England174
7Cumbria England161
8Argyll and Bute Scotland152
9South Ayrshire Scotland144
10Cornwall England137
11Perth and Kinross Scotland117
12Devon England106
13Powys Wales96
14Gloucestershire England86
15Somerset England82
5,551 England998 Scotland580 Wales36 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 105 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,387
Peak month
June
Counties with records
105
Scientific name
Carex flacca
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
40,258
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Carex
Name with authority
Carex flacca Schreb.
Contributing datasets
53

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158524 · GBIF 2727938