Sedges have edges! Grass and Sedge Identification Workshop
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Learn about the sedges that adorn Kingcombe’s old droveways, and the grasses that make up its botanically diverse meadows.
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Common club-rush
The dark green, straight and spiky stems of common club-rush or 'bulrush' are a familiar wetland sight. They are ideal for weaving and were traditionally used to make baskets, seats and…
Soft rush
As its name suggests, the smooth stems of soft rush are thinner and more flexible than those of hard rush. It forms tufts in wetland habitats like wet woodlands, marshes, ditches and grasslands.…
Rush Furlong
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Rush Furlong is a fragment of the once extensive system of strip farming in the Isle of Axholme.
Flowering rush
Flowering rush is a pretty rush-like plant of shallow wetland habitats, such as ponds, canals and ditches. Its cup-shaped, pink flowers appear in summer, brightening up the water's edge.
Hard rush
The stiff, spiky and upright leaves and brown flowers of hard rush are a familiar sight of wetlands, riversides, dune slacks and marshes across England and Wales.
Common spike-rush
Forming mats of straight, bright green stems, Common spike-rush does, indeed, look like lots of tightly clustered 'spikes' near the water's edge of our wetland habitats.
Identifying Grasses
This link will open on the Cornwall Wildlife Trust website.
Join us to learn about different grasses, as well as how to get involved with surveying them through the Tor to Shore project!
Purple moor-grass and rush pasture
This distinctive type of damp pasture is generally found on commons, as a component of lowland fen, or in undeveloped corners of otherwise intensively farmed landscapes.
Common cotton-grass
The fluffy, white heads of common cotton-grass dot our brown, boggy moors and heaths as if a giant bag of cotton wool balls has been thrown across the landscape!
Greenham Common Guided Wildlife Walk - Greenham Common, Sunday 13 July
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Join us for a ramble through Greenham Common to spot and learn about the local wildlife!
Kenilworth Common
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Explore this historical common in Kenilworth with woodland walks