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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. Carex
  9. Carex Sect. Limosae

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Carex Sect. Limosae

Limosae

Includes
4 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Tall Bog-sedge native
  • Mud Sedge native
  • Loose-flowered Alpine Sedge present
  • Several-flowered Sedge native
  • Barratt’s Sedge native
  • Connect Sedge
  • Carex × firmior

Range

United States

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

Top native carex sect. limosae All

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

  • Tall Bog-sedge Carex magellanica keystone caterpillars 41 food 58 flowers 3
  • Mud Sedge Carex limosa keystone caterpillars 38 food 60 flowers 3
  • Barratt’s Sedge Carex barrattii keystone caterpillars 23 food 43 flowers 3
  • Several-flowered Sedge Carex pluriflora keystone caterpillars 12 food 38 flowers 2

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