The Concise British Flora in Colour

acute Alpine Annual anthers auct awned banks base beneath blue bracts branches broad brown calcareous soils calyx capsule Carex cliffs Common continued creeping cultivated dark dense England erect especially fields flowers fruit glabrous glandular glaucous glumes Grass green hairs hairy heads hedges Huds inflo Introduced Ireland July July-Aug July-Sept June June-Aug June-July June-Sept lanceolate land leaf leaflets leaves lemma ligule linear lobes longer male margins marshes May-July May-June meadows mountains narrow Naturalized oblong ovate pale pastures pedicels peduncle Perennial petals pink places Plant pods pointed ponds prostrate purple rare Rhizome rocks Root rounded sand sandy Scotland Sedge seeds segments sepals sessile sheaths short shorter slender soils spikelets spikes spreading stalked stamens Stem Stem 2 ft stigma stipules streams style Subsp teeth upper usually veins Wales waste Water wide winged woods yellow