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Plants
A bristly, foxtail-like seed head on a common wet-ditch sedge.
Field facts
HabitatWet ditches, swales, pond margins
RangeStatewide
When to lookFlowers May to June
StatusSecure (Indiana DNR / IUCN Red List)
Look-alikesBottlebrush Sedge, Foxtail grasses
Field note: Among the first sedges to colonise a newly dug wetland.
Lesson
Watching responsibly
A workhorse of wetland restoration; leave seed heads for finches.
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