Glaucous sedge (Carex flacca)
Description
- Title:
- Glaucous sedge (Carex flacca)
- Caption / Description:
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Carex flacca (glaucous sedge, blue sedge or carnation-grass) (syn. Carex glauca) is a species of sedge native to parts of Europe and North Africa, and naturalized in eastern North America. It is frequent in a range of habitats, including grassland, moorland, bare ground, and upper edge of salt marsh.
Female spikes are approximately 2–4 cm long and 4–6 mm wide.
Stem leaves are green above, glaucous beneath. Most stems have two male spikes, close together and often looking like one at first glance. Fruits are 2–2½ mm, roundish, with a very short beak, under 0.3 mm. They are densely packed on the spike, not loose and gappy like Carex panicea.
The lowest bract is about as long as the inflorescence on average. Female spikes are typically two, and can be short-stalked and upright, or longer-stalked and nodding.
- Tags / Keywords:
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- Biota
- Life
- Vitae
- Eukaryota
- Plantae
- Plants
- Magnoliophyta
- Flowering Plants
- Angiosperms
- Liliopsida
- Monocotyledons
- Poales
- Cyperaceae
- Sedges
- Carex
- True Sedges
- Carex flacca
- Glaucous sedge
- Blue sedge
- Carnation-grass
Admin
- Date Original Photo Taken:
- Original File Name:
- _MG_9368-9.psd
- Event:
- Rating:
- Date this image added/last updated on website:
- Original File Dimensions:
- 2848px x 3967px
- File Type:
- JPEG
- Color Mode:
- RGB
- Original Image Color Profile:
- Adobe RGB (1998)
Location
- Location Created:
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- Sublocation:
- City:
- Market Harborough
- Province/State:
- Leicestershire
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- World Region:
- Europe
- Geo-location:
- 52.474908489569, -0.950077164336 View on map
Rights
- Copyright Status:
- Copyrighted
- Licensing Status:
- Rights Managed
- Available for Editorial Use:
- Yes
- Available for Commercial Use:
- Yes
- Copyright Notice:
- © 2010 Dave Kennard
Camera Data
- Date Digital Resource was created:
- Shutter speed:
- 1⁄200 s
- Aperture:
- f/4.5
- Camera Model:
- Canon EOS 450D
- ISO:
- 100
- Exposure Compensation:
- 0
- Focal Length:
- 100mm
- Focal Length (35mm equiv.):
- Metering Mode:
- Multi-segment
- Flash:
- Off, Did not fire
- Exposure Mode:
- Manual
- White Balance:
- Manual
- Light Source:
- Exposure Program:
- Manual
Additional shooting metadata
- Lens:
- Canon EF 100mm F2.8 Macro USM
- Filters used:
- Additional Optics used:
- Setup:
- Handheld, 2 shots
Post Processing
- Image Modified:
- Software used:
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- Adobe Photoshop CS4
- Adobe Camera RAW
- Post Processing:
CR2s converted in ACR
Images stacked for focus in PS CS4
Curves adjustment to increase contrast selectively applied in PS CS4
Bottom of image cropped off in PS CS4