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Plant ID

KeithsterKeithster Posts: 29
in Plants
Can anyone  identify this plant?  The leaves appeared a couple of years ago and I left it because I didn't know what it was.  It's flowered this year, but I'm not sure it's something I particularly want.  Any ideas?  Thank you in advance. 

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  • SueAtooSueAtoo Posts: 380
    Some sort of grass, if you don't want it take it out before it seeds.
    East Dorset, new (to me) rather neglected garden.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I think it's a sedge, most likely pendulous sedge. I would get it out pronto (and be alert for any more of it appearing).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I too think it’s a pendulous sedge … I would dig it out pdq and keep my eyes open for any more … it’s a tenacious thug. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • parrotfeather*parrotfeather* Posts: 188
    Yes it is Sedge.  I have been weeding it out of my garden for several years; I assume it comes in from seed.  It has very tough leaves and roots which are tenacious.
  • Mrs-B3-Southampton,-HantsMrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732
    Mine came from next door. By the time I noticed it I needed the pickaxe.
    Southampton 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If you can't get it out, at least dead head it as soon as you can @Keithster, to prevent it seeding everywhere. It's a beast of a thing to get rid of otherwise   :)

    Terrible plant. I can't believe it's actually still allowed to be sold too. How many folk must buy it without realising what it's like. It's everywhere around here - along all the verges etc. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I think the sale of it should be banned.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited May 2023
    Carex pendula.

    I introduced mine from the garden of an old-dears' home.  I regret it.  It is very invasive

    I like it where it is, but that's enough.  In a damp, shady "meadow", it is now 50% of the grasy stuff.  I control it with my 2x a year cuts, so it remains short.  

    In the borders it is easily spotted and removed.  But,don't let it seed;  enjoy the flowerheads for a short time.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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