Forum home› Plants
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Can anyone help identify something growing on my grass?

matthewhandley14iiiisc6ymatthewhandley14iiiisc6y Posts: 1
in Plants
I've got loads of these growing in the grass. When you pull at the star like plant it has a little straight root maybe 3/4cm then it's attached to a matted area of root which looks almost like moss. I've looked for ages online but can't find anything, can anyone help!? Thanks in advance  

Posts

  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @matthewhandley14iiiisc6y That looks like a sedge to me, a type of grass. Welcome.
    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
    I introduced Carex pendula to my damp. shady meadow.  They seeded about and within 4 years the sward is about 50% like yours.

    I now don't let the big plants seed (though I like the plant and its flowers) and mowing 2x per year stops it from growing too big.  What has reached the borders id easily dug out.

    So far, as a base "grass" for a meadow, I can't complain.

    There is another very recent post.
     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."
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2023
    The OP’s picture looks like Woodrush … info here 
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/woodrush-in-lawns 

    … not Carex Pendula. 

    😊 

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





  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited May 2023
    Luzula campestris....common name woodrush.

    Quote www...
    A compact and loosely tufted hairy grass like plant, with a short rootstock and shortly creeping runners. Leaves 2 to 4 mm wide, bright green grass like, thinly hairy with a small knob at each leaf tip...( see 1st pic below) Stems rarely over 15 cm tall usually much less, erect, ending in a loose panicle of 1 stalkless and 3 to 6 stalked, globose to ovoid heads, each with 3 to 12 florets, the stalks of the heads curved in flower.

    Pics below.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited May 2023
    See also above.
    This is Carex pendulous...much bigger than Luzula campestris....common name woodrush.

    Quote Woodland trust..."Leaves: 2cm wide and 1m long. Dark green, linear, pleated."


    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
Sign In or Register to comment.