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Photos of Wetland Carex Sedges
 

Carex bromoides ~ brome-like sedge

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Characteristics:
  • FACW+
  • Michigan C Value: 6
  • spring seeps, fens, prairie bogs, swamps, wet woods
  • very stiff leaves, to 2.2mm wide
  • narrow, lanceloid perigynia with bidentate beak
  • densely cespitose
  • up to 70cm high
  • old leaves persistent
  • 4-12 perigynia per spikelet
  • stigmas 2, often intertwined
  • flowers early April to mid-May
  • native
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