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Spring Sedge

Carex caryophyllea

1,975Records since 2000
JunePeak month
53Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb2
Mar8
Apr198
May335
Jun337
Jul236
Aug217
Sep82
Oct12
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England506
2North Yorkshire England142
3Powys Wales82
4South Ayrshire Scotland65
5Cornwall England64
6Herefordshire, County of England58
7Cumbria England53
8Dorset England27
9Argyll and Bute Scotland27
10Perth and Kinross Scotland26
11Conwy Wales20
12Gloucestershire England19
13Pembrokeshire Wales18
14Devon England15
15Monmouthshire Wales13
1,526 England137 Scotland245 Wales5 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 53 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,975
Peak month
June
Counties with records
53
Scientific name
Carex caryophyllea
Also known as
Spring-sedge
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
11,656
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Carex
Name with authority
Carex caryophyllea Latourr.
Contributing datasets
39

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157929 · GBIF 2727655