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Widespread and fairly frequent throughout the UK though it is more common in the West than the East and becomes more scarce in the far North of Scotland. Habitat includes: Damp, wet places often where it floods in the winter such as woodland, hedge banks, roadside verges, banks of rhynes, rivers, ditches, ponds. Height: Up to 30 cm. Perennial. Flowers: May to August. Other names include: Distant-spiked Sedge.