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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 Sect. Laxiflorae
  9. Grass-like Sedge

species 3,918 observations

Grass-like Sedge

Carex panicea

Status
present
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

25 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Putnam's Looper Moth, Large Heath, Buff Grass-miner, Cottongrass Sedge-miner 4
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Mallard, Common Raven, Eurasian Jackdaw, Redpoll 20
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Variable Duskyface Fly 1

Range

United States

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

Key traits

Layer
Grasses and sedges
Plant type
Ornamental grasses and sedges Perennial

From USDA PLANTS.

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