Cyril Ruoso / Variegated Greater Pond Sedge (Carex riparia) flowering, France

David Pike / Pendulous Sedge (Carex pendula) Stoke Wood, Devon, May.

David Pike / Pendulous Sedge (Carex pendula) Stoke Wood, Devon, May.

Rob Brown / White Cottongrass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri) field in valley, Landmannalaugar, Fjallabak Nature Reserve, South Iceland, Iceland

Colin Monteath / Dawn light across tussock grass hills above Matukituki River and Black Peak and Mount Aspiring near Wanaka, Otago, New Zealand

MYN / Niall Benvie / Pendulous sedge (Carex pendula) Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, UK May 2012 BioBlitz, meetyourneighbours.net project

Konrad Wothe / Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) chicks resting on tussock grass nest, Falkland Islands

Konrad Wothe / Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) sitting amid tussock grass, Falkland Islands

Niall Benvie / Composite of insects, arachnids and plants found on the Arnos Vale BioBlitz, Bristol, UK, June 2012 meetyourneighbours.net project. Orange ladybird (Halyzia sedecimguttata), Ivy (Hedera helix), Green...

Stephen Dalton / Rookery Wood, Holly Farm, Ardingly. This area is not protected by a deer fence, and a monoculture of Pendulous Sedge dominates. compare with protected area a few yards away. Sussex, UK, April.

Stephen Dalton / The upper image is the result of Fallow Deer (Dama dama) damage to unprotected woodland - all that remains of the ground flora is a monoculture of Pendulous Sedge. The lower image is the same woodlan...

Donald M. Jones / Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis) in bullrushes, Florida