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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. Carex
  9. Carex Sect. Aulocystis

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Carex Sect. Aulocystis

Aulocystis

Includes
6 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Carex Luzulina Clade 4 native
  • Carex Fuliginosa Clade 1 native
  • Evergreen Sedge
  • Carnation Grass
  • Scorched Alpine-sedge present
  • Rust-coloured Sedge
  • Carex austroalpina
  • Rock-dwelling Sedge native
  • Carex macrostachys

Range

United States

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

Top native carex sect. aulocystis All

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

  • Woodrush Sedge Carex luzulina keystone caterpillars 12 food 37 flowers 2
  • Shortleaved Sedge Carex fuliginosa keystone caterpillars 12 food 32 flowers 1
  • Lemmon's Sedge Carex lemmonii keystone caterpillars 6 food 28 flowers 3
  • Little-leaved Sedge Carex luzulifolia keystone caterpillars 5 food 28 flowers 1
  • Cleft Sedge Carex fissuricola keystone caterpillars 5 food 24 flowers 1
  • Rock-dwelling Sedge Carex petricosa

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