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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex flava
  9. Long-stalked Yellow-sedge

species 1,029 observations

Long-stalked Yellow-sedge

Carex lepidocarpa

Status
maybe native
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

76 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Large Heath, Buff Grass-miner, Cottongrass Sedge-miner, Dun Skipper 26
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Large Marsh Grasshopper, Bird Cherry-oat Aphid, Plant Bug, Song Sparrow 47
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Variable Duskyface Fly, Greater Bee Fly, Spotted Pink Lady Beetle 3

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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