help | home

Herbarium specimen: Carex disticha

Taxon:Cyperaceae: Carex disticha Huds. ("Brown Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:Cyperaceae: Carex disticha Huds. ("Brown Sedge")
Collected by:Dr John Lowell (Manchester Museum)
Collection date:2000
Locality:Great Britain, VC59 South Lancashire, Spurn Clough, Burnley, SD828358, Wet field c. 10m to west of Brook.
Institution:Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:20-00-183 14
Image:Carex disticha herbarium specimen from Spurn Clough, Burnley, VC59 South Lancashire in 2000 by Dr John Lowell (Manchester Museum).
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:Locally abundant in small area.
Letter from Helen & John Lowell,37,Henley Avenue,Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, Cheshire SK6 6DE attached reading "Dave, Is this Carex disticha? I don't remember seeing it in VC59 so if so it may be of interest. Span Clough Burnley SD828358 Wet field c 10m to W of brook. Plants single not tufted;creeping I think. Many plants in 1 small area (in hundreds) C. aculiformis nearby, C. paniculata in SD8236

Show in Google Earth

This sheet was documented by volunteers from the herbarium@home project.

Log-in to edit this specimen or crop examples of handwriting.

Documented by rmwalls following initial work by mary martin on 16th December 2009.

Checked by keith barnett

herbaria@home > specimen search