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• Carex abrupta
  Carex abrupta
  
  Carex abrupta is a species of Carex known by the common name abrupt-beaked sedge or abruptbeak sedge. It is native to the western United States from California to Idaho, where it grows in moist mountain habitat such as meadows....
  
• Carex acuta
  Carex acuta
  
  Carex acuta or Acute Sedge, Slender Tufted-sedge, Slim Sedge can be found growing on the margins of rivers and lakes in the Palearctic ecozone terrestrial ecoregions in beds of wet, Alkaline#Alkaline_soil or Alkaline soil Depression s with mineral soil....
   L.
• Carex acutiformis Ehrh.
• Carex arenaria
  Carex arenaria
  
  Carex arenaria, or Sand sedge, is a species of Perennial plant sedge of the genus Carex which is commonly growing in dunes and other sandy habitats, as the Latin species epithet suggests....
   L.
• Carex alba
• Carex albida
  Carex albida
  
  Carex albida is a very rare species of Carex known by the common name white sedge. It is Endemism to Sonoma County, California, where it is known only from a single remaining occurrence at Pitkin Marsh, a marsh between Forestville, California and Sebastopol, California....
  
• Carex albonigra
  Carex albonigra
  
  Carex albonigra is a species of Carex known by the common name black and white sedge. It is native to western North America from Alaska and most of western Canada to California to New Mexico, where it grows in mainly dry, rocky high mountain habitat such as scree....
  
• Carex aligata
• Carex alma
  Carex alma
  
  Carex alma is a species of Carex known by the common name sturdy sedge. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in moist spots in a number of habitat types....
  
• Carex amplifolia
  Carex amplifolia
  
  Carex amplifolia is a species of Carex known by the common name bigleaf sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Montana to California, where it grows in wet and seasonally wet areas in temperate coniferous forest....
  
• Carex angustata
  Carex angustata
  
  Carex angustata is a species of Carex known by the common name widefruit sedge. It is native to the western United States from Washington and Idaho to California, where it grows in wet meadows and on streambanks....
  
• Carex aquatilis
  Carex aquatilis
  
  Carex aquatilis is a species of Carex known by the common names water sedge and leafy tussock sedge. It has a Circumboreal Region distribution, occurring throughout the northern reaches of the Northern Hemisphere....
  
• Carex arcta
  Carex arcta
  
  Carex arcta is a species of Carex known by the common name northern cluster sedge. It is native to northern North America including most of Canada and northern parts of the United States....
  
• Carex asturica Boiss.
• Carex atherodes
  Carex atherodes
  
  Carex atherodes is a species of Carex known by the common name wheat sedge. It is native to Eurasia and much of North America including most of Canada and the United States....
  
• Carex athrostachya
  Carex athrostachya
  
  Carex athrostachya is a species of Carex known by the common name slenderbeak sedge. It is native to western North America, including Alaska to central Canada, the western contiguous United States, and just into Baja California....
  
• Carex atrofusca
• Carex aurea
  Carex aurea
  
  Carex aurea is a species of Carex known by the common name golden sedge. It is native to much of North America, including most of Canada and the western and central United States....
  
• Carex barbarae
  Carex barbarae
  
  Carex barbarae is a species of Carex known by the common name Santa Barbara sedge. It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows in wet and seasonally wet habitat, such as meadows and riverbanks....
  
• Carex binervis Sm.
• Carex bohemica
• Carex brevicollis DC.
• Carex brevior
• Carex breweri
• Carex brachystachys
• Carex brizoides
• Carex buxbaumii
  Carex buxbaumii
  
  Carex buxbaumii is a species of Carex known by the common name Buxbaum's sedge. It is native to much of the northern Northern Hemisphere, from Alaska to Greenland to Eurasia and including most of Canada and the United States....
  
• Carex camposii Boiss. et Reuter
• Carex canescens
  Carex canescens
  
  Carex canescens L. is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae with pluriregional distribution growing in damp forests and wetlands....
   L. (syn. C. cinerea Poll.)
• Carex capillaris L.
• Carex capitata
  Carex capitata
  
  Carex capitata is a species of Carex known by the common name capitate sedge. It has a Circumboreal Region distribution, growing in wet places in Taigas and mountain meadows in alpine climates....
  
• Carex caryophyllea Latourrette
• Carex cephalophora
• Carex cespitosa
  Carex cespitosa
  
  Carex cespitosa is a species of Perennial plant sedge of the genus Carex which can be found growing in bundles as the Latin species name suggests....
   L.
• Carex chordorrhiza
  Carex chordorrhiza
  
  Carex chordorrhiza Ehrh. is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae with Holarctic Kingdom distribution growing in acidic bogs....
   Ehrh.
• Carex comosa
  Carex comosa
  
  Carex comosa is a species of Carex known by the common name longhair sedge. It is native to North America, where it grows in western and eastern regions of Canada and the United States, and parts of Mexico....
  
• Carex concinnoides
  Carex concinnoides
  
  Carex concinnoides is a species of Carex known by the common name northwestern sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, where it can be found in moist or dry habitat, often in woodland and forested slopes, on silty and clay soils....
  
• Carex conferta Hochst. ex A.Rich.
• Carex curvula Al.
• Carex cusickii
  Carex cusickii
  
  Carex cusickii is a species of Carex known by the common name Cusick's sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Utah, where it can be found in several types of wet habitat, such as marshes, mountain meadows, and ditches....
  
• Carex cyperoides
• Carex davalliana Sm.
• Carex davisii
• Carex demissa Hornern.
• Carex depauperata Curtis ex With.
• Carex despressa Link
• Carex diandra
  Carex diandra
  
  Carex diandra is a species of Carex known by the common name lesser panicled sedge. It is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, where it can be found throughout North America, Europe, and Asia....
  
• Carex digitata L.
• Carex disperma
  Carex disperma
  
  Carex disperma is a species of Carex known by the common name softleaf sedge. It is native to much of the northern Northern Hemisphere, from Alaska to Greenland, most of Canada and the contiguous United States, and across Eurasia....
  
• Carex distachya Desf.
• Carex distans L.
• Carex disticha Hudson
• Carex divisa Hudson
• Carex divulsa Stokes
• Carex dioica
• Carex dolichostachya
• Carex douglasii
  Carex douglasii
  
  Carex douglasii is a species of Carex known by the common name Douglas' sedge. It is native to much of western North America, including the western Canadian provinces, the western United States, and Baja California....
  
• Carex durieui Steudel
• Carex echinata
  Carex echinata
  
  Carex echinata is a species of Carex known by the common names star sedge and little prickly sedge. This plant is native to North and Central America and parts of Eurasia....
   Murray
• Carex elata All. (= C. stricta)
• Carex ericetorum
  Carex ericetorum
  
  Carex ericetorum Poll. is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae native to Eurasia and growing on sandy soils in pine forests....
   Pollich
• Carex extensa Good.
• Carex ferruginea Scop.
• Carex festucacea
  Carex festucacea
  
  Carex festucacea or Fescue sedge is a rare Cyperaceae found "along the Bur Oak Prairie edge, at Longe Grove Forest Preserve - a soft, gray green, wisp, to 2', with narrow leaf and somewhat taller stems, topped by an interrupted spike, with lower spikelets, shaped a bit like an overflowing ice cream cone....
  
• Carex filifolia
  Carex filifolia
  
  Carex filifolia is a species of Carex known by the common name threadleaf sedge. It is native to much of western North America, from Alaska to California and Manitoba to New Mexico, where it grows in moist and dry habitat....
  
• Carex filiformis L.
• Carex fimbriata
• Carex firma
• Carex flacca
  Carex flacca
  
  Carex flacca is a species of sedge native to parts of Europe and North Africa, and naturalized in eastern North America. It is frequent in a range of habitats, including grassland, moorland, bare ground, and upper edge of saltmarsh....
   Schieber
• Carex flava L.
• Carex fracta
  Carex fracta
  
  Carex fracta is a species of Carex known by the common name fragile sheath sedge. It is native to the western United States from Washington to California, where it grows in moist to dry areas in mountain forests and meadows....
  
• Carex geyeri
  Carex geyeri
  
  Carex geyeri is a species of Carex known by the common names Geyer's sedge and elk sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in dry areas in mountain meadows, grasslands, and open forest....
  
• Carex globularis
  Carex globularis
  
  Carex globularis L. is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae native to damp forests and wetlands of Asia and Eastern Europe....
   L.
• Carex grayi
• Carex guestphalica
• Carex halleriana Amo
• Carex hassei
  Carex hassei
  
  Carex hassei is a species of Carex known by the common name salt sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Baja California to New Mexico, where it grows in moist places, such as meadows....
  
• Carex haydeniana
  Carex haydeniana
  
  Carex haydeniana is a species of Carex known by the common name cloud sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to New Mexico, where it grows in moist, rocky areas in subalpine and alpine climates....
  Olney
• Carex helleri
  Carex helleri
  
  Carex helleri is a species of Carex known by the common name Heller's sedge. It is native to eastern California and western Nevada, where it grows on rocky mountain slopes and in other habitats....
  
• Carex heteroneura
  Carex heteroneura
  
  Carex heteroneura is a species of Carex known by the common name different-nerve sedge. It is native to western Canada and the western United States, where it grows in moist mountain habitat such as forests and meadows....
  
• Carex hirta L.
• Carex hispida Willd.
• Carex hoodii
  Carex hoodii
  
  Carex hoodii is a species of Carex known by the common name Hood's sedge. It is native to western North America from Alaska to California to South Dakota, where it grows in dry to moist habitat in forests and on mountain slopes....
  
• Carex hordeistichos Vill.
• Carex hostiana DC.
• Carex humilis Leysser
• Carex hystericina
  Carex hystericina
  
  Carex hystericina is a species of Carex known by the common names bottlebrush sedge and porcupine sedge. It is native to much of North America including most of southern Canada and most of the United States....
  
• Carex illota
  Carex illota
  
  Carex illota is a species of Carex known by the common name sheep sedge. It is native to western North America, where it grows in wet places such as marshes and mountain meadows....
  
• Carex interior
  Carex interior
  
  Carex interior is a species of Carex known by the common name inland sedge. It is native to much of North America from Alaska to northern Mexico to the mid-Atlantic United States....
  
• Carex jamesii
  Carex jamesii
  
  Carex jamesii is native to North America and is distributed from Minnesota east to New York and south to Oklahoma and South Carolina. It occurs in mesic hardwood forests and flowers in early May to mid- July....
  Schwein
• Carex jonesii
  Carex jonesii
  
  Carex jonesii is a species of Carex known by the common name Jones' sedge. It is native to the western United States from California to Montana to Colorado, where it grows in moist areas, especially in subalpine mountain habitat....
  
• Carex lachenalii Schkuhr
• Carex laevigata Sm.
• Carex lasiocarpa
  Carex lasiocarpa
  
  Carex lasiocarpa is a species of Carex known by the common names slender sedge and woollyfruit sedge. This is an aquatic plant or shore plant of wet areas in mountainous areas of moderate elevation....
  
• Carex lenticularis
  Carex lenticularis
  
  Carex lenticularis is a species of Carex known by the common name lakeshore sedge. It is native to much of northern North America, including most all of Canada and the western United States, where it grows in wet habitat....
  
• Carex leporinella
  Carex leporinella
  
  Carex leporinella is a species of Carex known by the common name Sierra hare sedge. It is native to the western United States from California to Wyoming, where it grows in moist mountain habitat, such as meadows....
  
• Carex leptalea
  Carex leptalea
  
  Carex leptalea is a species of Carex known by the common names bristly-stalked sedge and flaccid sedge. It is native to much of North America including most all of Canada and most of the United States....
  
• Carex limosa
  Carex limosa
  
  Carex limosa is a species of Carex known by the common names mud sedge and shore sedge. This is an aquatic plant or shore plant which can most often be found in Sphagnum in mountains....
  
• Carex liparocarpos Gaudin
• Carex livida
• Carex loliacea (image)
• Carex longii
• Carex luzulina
  Carex luzulina
  
  Carex luzulina is a species of Carex known by the common name woodrush sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Wyoming, where it grows in wet habitat such as bogs and mountain meadows....
  
• Carex lyngbyei
  Carex lyngbyei
  
  Carex lyngbyei is a species of Carex known by the common name Lyngbye's sedge. It is native to the west coast of North America from Alaska to California, where it "is the common sedge of the Pacific coastal salt marshes." It is also known from Greenland and Iceland....
  
• Carex macloviana
• Carex macrostylon Lapeyr.
• Carex mairii Cosson et Germ.
• Carex mariposana
  Carex mariposana
  
  Carex mariposana is a species of Carex known by the common name Mariposa sedge. It is native to the mountains of northern California and far western Nevada, where it grows in moist areas such as meadows....
  
• Carex maritima
• Carex mertensii
  Carex mertensii
  
  Carex mertensii is a species of Carex known by the common name Mertens' sedge. It is native to western North America from Alaska to California to Montana, where it grows in moist and wet habitat in mountain forests and meadows....
  
• Carex microglochin
• Carex microptera
  Carex microptera
  
  Carex microptera is a species of Carex known by the common name smallwing sedge. It is native to western North America, including most all of western Canada and the western United States....
  
• Carex molesta
  Carex molesta
  
  Carex molesta is a species of Carex known by the common name troublesome sedge. It is native to eastern and central North America, where it grows in varied wet and dry habitats, including disturbed areas such as roadsides....
  
• Carex monostachya
• Carex montana L.
• Carex multicaulis
  Carex multicaulis
  
  Carex multicaulis is a species of Carex known by the common name manystem sedge. It is native to California and southern Oregon, where it grows in open forest and chaparral habitat....
  
• Carex multicostata
  Carex multicostata
  
  Carex multicostata is a species of Carex known by the common name manyrib sedge. It is native to the western United States from California to Montana, where it grows mainly in dry areas in mountain ranges....
  
• Carex muricata L.
• Carex muskingumensis Nutt.
• Carex nebrascensis
  Carex nebrascensis
  
  Carex nebrascensis is a species of Carex known by the common name Nebraska sedge. It is native to the western and central United States and into central Canada, where it grows in wetlands....
  
• Carex nervina
  Carex nervina
  
  Carex nervina is a species of Carex known by the common name Sierra sedge. It is native to California and adjacent parts of Oregon and Nevada, where it grows mainly in mountain meadows....
  
• Carex neurophora
  Carex neurophora
  
  Carex neurophora is a species of Carex known by the common name alpine nerve sedge. It is native to the western United States, where it grows in wet mountain habitat such as meadows and streambanks....
  
• Carex nigra
  Carex nigra
  
  Carex nigra Reichard is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae native to wetlands of Europe and Siberia....
  (L.) Reichard
• Carex nigricans
  Carex nigricans
  
  Carex nigricans is a species of Carex known by the common name black alpine sedge. It is native to western North America from Alaska to northern California to Colorado, where it grows in wet areas in mountain, taiga, and tundra habitat....
  
• Carex norvegica
• Carex nudata
  Carex nudata
  
  Carex nudata is a species of Carex known by several common names, including torrent sedge, California black-flowering sedge, Dudley's sedge, and naked sedge....
  S.Watson
• Carex obnupta
  Carex obnupta
  
  Carex obnupta is a species of Carex known by the common name slough sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California where it grows abundantly in wet, often Soil salinity habitat such as wetlands....
  
• Carex obtusata
• Carex occidentalis
  Carex occidentalis
  
  Carex occidentalis is a species of Carex known by the common name western sedge. It is native to the southwestern United States and parts of the west as far north as Montana....
  
• Carex oedipostyla Duval-Jouve
• Carex ornithopoda Willd.
• Carex otrubae Podp.
• Carex ovalis
  Carex ovalis
  
  Carex ovalis is a species of Carex known by the common name eggbract sedge. It is native to Eurasia and eastern and western North America, where it grows in seasonally wet habitat, such as meadows and fields....
  Gooden
• Carex pachystachya
  Carex pachystachya
  
  Carex pachystachya is a species of Carex known by the common name Chamisso sedge. It is native to western North America from Alaska to Saskatchewan to California, where it grows in dry to wet areas in many types of forest and grassland habitat....
  
• Carex pallescens L.
• Carex panicea L.
• Carex paniculata L.
• Carex pansa
  Carex pansa
  
  Carex pansa is a species of Carex known by the common name sand dune sedge. It is native to coast of western North America from British Columbia to California, where it grows in dunes and other sandy habitat....
  
• Carex pairae
• Carex pauciflora
  Carex pauciflora
  
  Carex pauciflora Lightf. is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae native to Holarctic Kingdom wetlands....
  Lightf.
• Carex paupercula
  Carex paupercula
  
  Carex paupercula Michx. is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae native to Holarctic Kingdom wetlands....
  Michx.
• Carex paridoxa
• Carex parviflora Host.
• Carex pellita
  Carex pellita
  
  Carex pellita is a species of Carex known by the common name woolly sedge. It is native to much of North America, including most of the United States and southern Canada....
  
• Carex pendula
  Carex pendula
  
  Carex pendula is a large Cyperaceae of the genus Carex. It occurs in woodland, scrubland, Hedge and beside streams, preferring damp, heavy clay soils....
  Hudson
• Carex pensylvanica
• Carex petasata
  Carex petasata
  
  Carex petasata is a species of Carex known by the common name Liddon sedge. It is native to much of western North America, from Alaska and northern Canada to California to New Mexico, where it grows in several habitat types, including dry and wet, and low to high elevation, woodland and grassland....
  
• Carex phaeocephala
  Carex phaeocephala
  
  Carex phaeocephala is a species of Carex known by the common name dunhead sedge. It is native to much of western North America, from Alaska to California to New Mexico, where it grows in high elevation habitat, including areas of alpine climate, generally in rocky soils....
  
• Carex pilulifera L.
• Carex polymorpha, Variable sedge
• Carex praeceptorum
  Carex praeceptorum
  
  Carex praeceptorum is a species of Carex known by the common names early sedge and teacher's sedge. It is native to much of western North America, from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in wet, marshy habitat such as bogs and lakeshores....
  
• Carex praecox Schreber
• Carex praegracilis
  Carex praegracilis
  
  Carex praegracilis is a species of Carex known by the common names clustered field sedge and expressway sedge. It is native to much of North America, from Alaska across southern Canada and throughout the continental United States except for the southeastern region....
  
• Carex praticola
  Carex praticola
  
  Carex praticola is a species of Carex known by the common name meadow sedge. It is native to most of northern North America, including most of Canada and the northernmost United States....
  
• Carex proposita
  Carex proposita
  
  Carex proposita is a species of Carex known by the common name Great Smoky Mountain sedge. It has a scattered distribution in parts of the western United States, including Washington, Idaho, and California....
  
• Carex pulicaris L.
• Carex pseudocyperus L.
• Carex pulicarus
• Carex punctata Gaudin
• Carex pyrenaica Wahlenb.
• Carex raynoldsii
  Carex raynoldsii
  
  Carex raynoldsii is a species of Carex known by the common name Raynolds' sedge. It is native to western North America from California to Colorado to Yukon, where it grows in mountain meadows in subalpine and alpine climates....
  
• Carex remota L.
• Carex riparia Curtis
• Carex rossii
  Carex rossii
  
  Carex rossii is a species of Carex known by the common name Ross' sedge. It is native to much of western and central North America, from Alaska and northwestern Canada to the American southwest to the Great Lakes region....
  
• Carex rostrata
  Carex rostrata
  
  Bottle Sedge Stokes is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae native to Holarctic Kingdom fens....
  Stokes
• Carex rupestris
• Carex scoparia
  Carex scoparia
  
  Carex scoparia is a species of Carex known by the common names broom sedge and pointed broom sedge. It should not be confused with the unrelated Andropogon species known as broom sedge, Andropogon virginicus....
  
• Carex scopulorum Vill.
• Carex sempervirens Vill.
• Carex serotina Mérat
• Carex serpenticola
• Carex sheldonii
  Carex sheldonii
  
  Carex sheldonii is a species of Carex known by the common name Sheldon's sedge. It is native to the western United States, where it grows in wet areas such as lakeshores and moist meadows....
  
• Carex siderosticha
• Carex simpliciascula
• Carex simulata
  Carex simulata
  
  Carex simulata is a species of Carex known by the common name analogue sedge. It is native to the western United States and western Canada, where it grows in many types of wet habitat, from mountain meadows to ditches, often in alkali soil....
  
• Carex solandri
• Carex sparganioides
  Carex sparganioides
  
  Bur-reed sedge is a perennial plant belonging to the sedge family . Its native range includes most of the Eastern and Central U.S., and it is typically found in hardwood or mixed forests....
  
• Carex specifica
  Carex specifica
  
  Carex specifica is a species of Carex known by the common name narrowfruit sedge. It is native to California and far western Nevada, where it grows in dry areas in mountain forests and meadows....
  
• Carex spectabilis
  Carex spectabilis
  
  Carex spectabilis is a species of Carex known by the common name showy sedge. It is native to western North America from Alaska to California to Utah, where it grows in moist mountain habitat in subalpine to alpine climates....
  
• Carex spicata Hudson
• Carex spissa
  Carex spissa
  
  Carex spissa is a species of Carex known by the common name San Diego sedge. It is native to the southwestern United States and far northern Mexico, where it grows in wet places, sometimes on serpentine soils....
  
• Carex straminiformis
  Carex straminiformis
  
  Carex straminiformis is a species of Carex known by the common name Shasta sedge. It is native to the western United States where it grows in rocky soils in a number of habitat types....
  
• Carex stricta
  Carex stricta
  
  Carex stricta is a species of Carex known by the common name Tussock Sedge.External links...
  Tussock Sedge
• Carex strigosa Hudson
• Carex subnigricans
  Carex subnigricans
  
  Carex subnigricans is a species of Carex known by the common name nearlyblack sedge. It is native to the western United States from California to Wyoming, where it grows in moist and dry mountain habitat above 2500 meters in elevation....
  
• Carex sylvatica Hudson
• Carex teretiuscula
• Carex thouarsii
  Carex thouarsii
  
  Carex thouarsii is a species of plant in the Cyperaceae family. It is Endemism to Saint Helena. Its natural habitats are subantarctic forests and swamps....
  
• Carex umbrosa Host
• Carex utriculata
  Carex utriculata
  
  Carex utriculata is a species of Carex known by the common name Northwest Territory sedge. It is native to the northern half of North America, including most all of Canada and the northern United States....
  
• Carex vallicola
  Carex vallicola
  
  Carex vallicola is a species of Carex known by the common name valley sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to New Mexico, where it grows in many types of moist and dry habitat, including forest and grassland....
  
• Carex vernacula
  Carex vernacula
  
  Carex vernacula is a species of Carex known by the common name native sedge. It is native to the western United States, where it grows in moist mountain habitat in alpine climates and higher subalpine elevations....
  
• Carex vesicaria
  Carex vesicaria
  
  Carex vesicaria is a species of Carex known by the common name blister sedge. It is native to northern North America including most of Canada and the northern United States, and it is known from parts of Eurasia....
  L.
• Carex vulpina L.
• Carex vulpinoidea
  Carex vulpinoidea
  
  Carex vulpinoidea is a species of Carex known by the common name fox sedge. It is native to North America, including most of Canada and the United States and part of Mexico, and it is known in Europe and New Zealand as an introduced species....
  
• Carex wahuensis

• Carex images on , a biological image database