Basic flushes are
dominated by sedges
accompanied by rushes, a few grass species and some choice herbs.
The meadow floods regularly, as indicated by the damp-loving grasses,
including the uncommon brown sedge.
In the typical rushy grassland sedges are sparse, but in the more diverse areas
glaucous sedge
is prominent.
Sedge warbler
with a rather similar song style.
Typical of some sections of the river are the distinctive towers of the great
tussock sedge.
Alder and willow predominate in the wet valley bottom, with a ground flora of golden saxifrage, yellow flag and
pendulous sedge.
Sedge fen
- low nutrients, high diversity saw sedge fen
- low nutrients, high diversity saw sedge is the main plant species in these areas.
The southern part is dry, with poor bog moss cover, short common heather,
deer sedge, cross-leaved heath and cladonia lichens.
The flushes are typically dominated by a range of small sedges such as
carnation sedge
and long-stalked yellow sedge.
Sedge bed
close to the car park.
This has a low sedge sward, dominated by carnation sedge, with abundant common yellow sedge and occasionally
flea sedge.
On pen-y-ghent either mat-grass or purple moor-grass dominate the grassland and higher up this contains
stiff sedge
carex bigelowii.
Sedge species
to the lists.
Patches of acid peat with heather and acid grasses or with
cotton sedge
are found on the remnants of the former bogs.
Moreover the taxonomy of the related
yellow sedges
has been confused by the different approaches of various authors.
Sedge patterns
work well once the weather warms as spring moves into summer.
Uncommon plants such as
saw sedge, greater meadow rue and marsh valerian are found in the meadow.
The
rare broad-leaved cotton sedge
also occurs below the belmore cliffs.
Sedge field, cut every three years in the summer.
Species include
bottle sedge, common cotton sedge, devil's-bit scabious and marsh violet growing over layers of sphagnum mosses and brown mosses.
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