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Species
glaucous sedge
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyCyperaceae
Native toAlbania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia
Observations11,151
Observations recorded645,763
Carex glauca Scopoli
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5,414
- With media
- 3,743
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, USU, TROM, QUE, CAS, DEK
- Recorded in
- Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, France
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Encyclopedic overview
Carex flacca, with common names blue sedge, gray carex, glaucous sedge, or carnation-grass, (syn. Carex glauca), is a species of sedge native to parts of Europe and North Africa. It is frequent in a range of habitats, including grasslands, moorlands, exposed and disturbed soil, and the upper edges of salt marshes. It has naturalized in eastern North America.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carex flacca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.