Flowers	Fruit

Height: 20-60cm
Rarely Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Rhizomatous, Persistent Seed Bank
Monoecious, Flowering May - June (Earliest: 18.4)

Biotopes:	Wet Meadows	Pond Edge
Pollination:	Wind
Possible Parasites:	Elachista subalbidella Larva (Leaf Miner)	Cordilura Larvae (Stem Borers)	Psila fimetaria Larva (Stem Borer)
Herbivores:	Deltote deceptoria
Other Possible Herbivores:	Euthrix potatoria	Hypenodes humidalis Larva	Many Tenthredinidae	Plateumaris discolor Larva
Possible Sapivores:	Several Cicadellidae	Stenodema calcarata	Delphacodes venosus

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Oval Sedge

Pictures © 2003, 2004, 2006 J.K. Lindsey

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