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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex Subg. Euthyceras
  9. Carex Capitata Clade

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Carex Capitata Clade

Carex capitata

Includes
5 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Rock Sedge native
  • Capitate Sedge native
  • Bristle Sedge native
  • Blunt Sedge native
  • Nard Sedge native
  • Capitate Sedge

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native carex capitata clade All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Blunt Sedge Carex obtusata keystone caterpillars 30 food 47 flowers 3
  • Rock Sedge Carex rupestris keystone caterpillars 17 food 45 flowers 1
  • Bristle Sedge Carex microglochin keystone caterpillars 17 food 43 flowers 1
  • Nard Sedge Carex nardina keystone caterpillars 11 food 34 flowers 3
  • Capitate Sedge Carex capitata keystone caterpillars 6 food 26 flowers 2

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