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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
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  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex Subg. Carex
  9. Carex Sect. Glaucescentes
  10. Top native

Top native carex sect. glaucescentes

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

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3 native plants

Sun and shade

Light

Full sun 1 Part shade 1

Soil and water

Moisture

Moist 1 Wet 1

Soil

Loam 1 Organic 1

Soil pH

Acid 1

Toughness

Resists

Wet soil 1

Form

Habit

Erect 1

Plant type

Ornamental grasses and sedges 3 Perennial 2 Herbaceous perennial 1
  • 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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