Starved wood-sedge is described as "quite an unassuming grass" but is at risk of extinction.

Conservationists in Somerset are attempting to save one of the UK’s rarest plants from the brink of extinction.

The starved wood-sedge (also known as Carex depauperate) is only found in two sites nationwide, one of which is in Axbridge in Somerset.

It has been struggling to survive and so The Species Recovery Trust has moved some plants into captivity to “bulk up” its numbers in the hope of establishing two new populations within the Mendip Hills National Landscape.