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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex Subg. Vignea
  9. Carex Echinata Clade

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Carex Echinata Clade

Carex elongata

Includes
6 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Star Sedge native
  • Inland Sedge native
  • Elongated Sedge
  • Prickly Bog Sedge native
  • Dioecious Sedge native
  • Meager Sedge native
  • Weak Stellate Sedge native
  • Wiegand's Sedge present
  • Ruth's Sedge native

Range

United States

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

Top native carex echinata clade All

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

  • Star Sedge Carex echinata keystone caterpillars 40 food 62 flowers 3
  • Inland Sedge Carex interior keystone caterpillars 39 food 55 flowers 3
  • Meager Sedge Carex exilis keystone caterpillars 33 food 54 flowers 3
  • Prickly Bog Sedge Carex atlantica keystone caterpillars 32 food 52 flowers 3
  • Dioecious Sedge Carex sterilis keystone caterpillars 30 food 52 flowers 3
  • Weak Stellate Sedge Carex seorsa keystone caterpillars 30 food 50 flowers 3
  • Ruth's Sedge Carex ruthii

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