Plants : CyperaceaeFerns and Flowering Plants

Carex echinata Murray

Star Sedge

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Carex echinata

Description: One of the most easily identified sedges, with the fruits arranged in star-like brown clusters. Common in wet peaty places, bogs, mires etc.

All names: Carex echinata Murray; Carex stellulata Gooden.

Distribution Map from NBN: Carex echinata at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Carex echinata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

 Hackney, P., 2026. Carex echinata. Murray. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland.
https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=2482. Accessed on 2026-11-02.