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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. Glaucescentes

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Carex Sect. Glaucescentes

Glaucescentes

Includes
3 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Southern Waxy Sedge native
  • Cypress Swamp Sedge native
  • Warty Sedge native

Range

United States

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

Top native carex sect. glaucescentes All

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

  • Cypress Swamp Sedge Carex joorii keystone caterpillars 22 food 42 flowers 3
  • Southern Waxy Sedge Carex glaucescens keystone caterpillars 14 food 38 flowers 3
  • Warty Sedge Carex verrucosa keystone caterpillars 11 food 37 flowers 2

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