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Herbarium specimen: Carex spicata

Taxon:Cyperaceae: Carex spicata Huds. ("Spiked Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:Cyperaceae: Carex spicata Huds. ("Spiked Sedge")
Collected by:Arthur Oliver Chater
Collection date:14/5/1961
Locality:Great Britain, VC55 Leicestershire, Husbands Bosworth, SP630845, on N bank of Grand Union Canal 250m WSW of the W end of the canal tunnel, (altitude 450ft)
Institution:Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:1131169
Image:Carex spicata herbarium specimen from Husbands Bosworth, VC55 Leicestershire in 1961 by Arthur Oliver Chater.
collector's number:4081
notes:Growing in tufts in long grass in shade of Crataegus, Rubus, etc.

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Documented by xmhcman on 26th January 2015.

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