About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. Hairy Sedge
Species · Flowering plants

Hairy Sedge

Carex hirta

3,686Records since 2000
JunePeak month
91Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb6
Mar8
Apr95
May581
Jun841
Jul538
Aug370
Sep170
Oct84
Nov15
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England705
2Herefordshire, County of England175
3Suffolk England155
4Norfolk England151
5Cambridgeshire England110
6Telford and Wrekin England78
7North Yorkshire England63
8Oxfordshire England46
9Cumbria England38
10Somerset England35
11Essex England33
12Surrey England32
13Sefton England32
14Dorset England30
15Devon England29
3,379 England107 Scotland88 Wales31 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 91 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,686
Peak month
June
Counties with records
91
Scientific name
Carex hirta
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
25,768
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Carex
Name with authority
Carex hirta L.
Contributing datasets
50

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158312 · GBIF 2724661