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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. Ceratocystis

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Carex Sect. Ceratocystis

Ceratocystis

Includes
4 native 4 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Carex flava 2 native
  • Northeastern Sedge native
  • Golden Sedge native
  • Greenstar Sedge native
  • Rocky Shore Sedge
  • Carex cryptolepis × oederi

Range

United States

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

Top native carex sect. ceratocystis All

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

  • Little Green Sedge Carex oederi caterpillars 40 food 60 flowers 3
  • Yellow-green Sedge Carex flava keystone caterpillars 35 food 63 flowers 3
  • Northeastern Sedge Carex cryptolepis keystone caterpillars 33 food 53 flowers 3
  • Greenstar Sedge Carex viridistellata caterpillars 23 food 40 flowers 3
  • Golden Sedge Carex lutea

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