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Carex pseudocyperus
Male spike (top) and three female spikes (bottom)
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Cyperaceae
Genus:	Carex
Subgenus:	Carex subg. Carex
Section:	Carex sect. Vesicariae
Species:	C. pseudocyperus
Binomial name
Carex pseudocyperus L.

Carex pseudocyperus is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name cyperus sedge or hop sedge. It grows in marshes, swamps, and the margins of ponds, rivers and canals. The stems can be up to 90 centimetres (35 in) with one male spike and 3 to 5 pendulous female spikes, and bright yellow-green leaves to 1.2 metres (3 ft 11 in).

References

1. BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
2. ^ Fitter, Richard; Fitter, Alastair; Farrer, Ann (1984). Collins Guide to the Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns of Britain and Northern Europe. London. p. 142. ISBN 0-00-219136-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. Stace, Clive A. (2010). New flora of the British isles (Third ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 965. ISBN 9780521707725.
4. "Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora".

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