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Wood-sedge

Carex sylvatica

3,912Records since 2000
MayPeak month
90Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan18
Feb55
Mar79
Apr500
May884
Jun638
Jul329
Aug275
Sep191
Oct92
Nov52
Dec25

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England732
2Herefordshire, County of England183
3Cambridgeshire England93
4Suffolk England91
5North Yorkshire England84
6Oxfordshire England72
7Telford and Wrekin England70
8Essex England64
9Surrey England59
10Norfolk England55
11Gloucestershire England55
12Argyll and Bute Scotland53
13Powys Wales50
14West Berkshire England50
15Devon England47
3,473 England153 Scotland123 Wales25 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 90 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,912
Peak month
May
Counties with records
90
Scientific name
Carex sylvatica
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
24,952
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Carex
Name with authority
Carex sylvatica Huds.
Contributing datasets
43

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158168 · GBIF 2722602