Carex strigosa is similar to Carex sylvatica (Wood Sedge) and grows in similar habitats.  It is a bigger plant with wider, yellow-green, slightly drooping leaves and long thin fruiting spikes which are erect or held at right angles when mature.  The fruits (utricles) have short beaks.

Can be similar to Carex sylvatica. C sylvatica fruits have a long beak and the mature flower spikes are drooping.

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On moist, base-rich, sometimes clayey, soils in deciduous or mixed woodlands, often found near streams or seepages. It occurs most frequently in clearings and along tracks, but is sometimes found in considerable shade.

In flower during May and June.

Widespread but rather local in distribution and more frequent the southern half of Britain.

Local in Leicestershire and Rutland, but can be quite frequent in suitable locations.