Not all flowers are colorful -- here are the flowers of a sedge deep in the Monkey Run Natural Area

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📍Irvine, California
🗓️ July 19, 2025
📷 Sony DSC-F828, 48mm, f/4, 1/2000th, ISO 64

#photography #globesedge #sedge #seedhead #Nature #plant #plants #vintagecamera #vintagedigital #vintagedigitalcamera

Sedges in the oak woodland restoration project

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#naturephotography
#WoodlandRestoration

More important, #today, than the #compost cages was the progress made on clearing all the #grass, #reed and #sedge that had been strimmed last #Saturday.

The first image was taken at 09:47 and the filled compost bins at 11:01. I was pleased with what I had achieved.

Last Saturday was spent clearing the bank of the #lake behind our house. It took an hour to do the #strimming and the rest of the #daylight #hours to remove the the chopped reed from the lake and half of the #grass, #sedge and #reed from the bank. What we did manage to clear was piled in our #compost bins.

Staying at Cors Goch, here are two #wetland plants from that #nature reserve. On the left, Common #Cottongrass—not a grass, but a #sedge, with distinctive 'cotton wool ball' seed heads. On the right, Marsh #Cinquefoil, a.k.a. Swamp Cinquefoil or Purple Marshlocks.

#Flora #Wildlflowers #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotography

Any #sedge fans out there have any idea why Carex eburnea came to have the common name "Ivory Sedge"?

It's also called "Ebony sedge", which I assume is a reference to the deep brown colour of the achenes, which split out of the perigynia and are clearly visible when mature.

#botany

I thought I was just photographing the flowers on this beautiful native #sedge that has self sown in the rock garden.. they have rather complicated flower structures, so I didn't realise there was something extra! I had to look at it for a bit on the computer screen to decide it is a #spider right?
posting this one to iNat too..
#NativePlants #NaturalGardening #arachnids #nature #Alberta #May