Carex sylvatica Wood-sedge

A common sedge of damp, heavy soils in deciduous woodlands growing with other common woodland plants such as Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis). If you were not aquainted with it you might mistake it for a grass. It is a very common species of the Gower Ash woodlands and also occurs in the valley bottom woodlands in the riparian corridors of the Tawe, Neath and Afan Valleys. Established plants are long-lived and frequently occur along forest tracks in conifer plantations, where they are relics of the ancient broad-leaved deciduous forests that once occured there.

Native