In message , Kate Brown
writes
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, robert wrote
Grateful for a name to these:

Http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertindevon/?saved=1

(Clump of plants in front of the pieris and behind the euonymous).

They started to appear in the garden last year and are now popping up
everywhere.

Linear leaves, up to 22mm wide and 400mm long, with very slightly
serrated edges, no indication of flowers.

Location S Devon redlands, garden used to be part of broadleafed
woodland.


Is it a kind of grass? Have you dug one up?

A flash of inspiration - I think that they could be Carex pendula. We
have some mature clumps in the garden (nowhere near these new plants)
and the adjacent woodland that are considerably larger and darker green
but the leaf form is quite similar. It could be that after many years
here we have suddenly been invaded by them.

--
Robert