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Photos of Wetland Carex Sedges
 

Carex amphibola ~ eastern narrow-leaf sedge

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Characteristics:
  • FACW-
  • Michigan C Value: 8
  • wet woods, wooded floodplain riverbanks
  • terminal spike (up tp 3cm long) elevated above pistillate spikelets
  • awned pistillate scales
  • beakless, glabrous perigynia
  • perigynia up to 12 per spiklet, 3.5-4.5mm long
  • cespitose from short rhizomes
  • culms slender, to 80cm high
  • leaves 3-7mm wide
  • 3 stigmas
  • flowers late April to mid-June
  • native
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