FINGERED SEDGE Carex digitata

Fingered Sedge is a perenial of open decidious woodland on limestone, rocky outcrops and scree. It thrives in light shade, but will cease to flower and die back if the canopy becomes too dense. It is one of the earliest flowering sedges. The plant displays a single male spike with two or three female spikes lower down the stem, which are held on slender stalks, spreading out like fingers

Often used as an ornamental plant in gardens.

Fingered Sedge is a tussock forming evergreen sedge.

BSBI 2025 Categorisation: Scare. Listed as Endangered on the Welsh Red List.

Height: 120cm

Flowers: April to June

Colour: Green