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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex Annectens Clade
  9. Awl-fruited Sedge

species 8,150 observations

Awl-fruited Sedge

Carex stipata

Status
native
Keystone
49 caterpillar species raised on Carex grasses and sedges
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

98 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Dun Skipper, Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia Moth, Black Dash, Dukes' Skipper 39
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it American Black Bear, Ruffed Grouse, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Cosmotettix paludosus 56
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Variable Duskyface Fly, Greater Bee Fly, Spotted Pink Lady Beetle 3

Children

  • Common Awl-fruited Sedge

Range

United States

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

Key traits

Layer
Grasses and sedges
Light
Full sun
Moisture
Moist Wet
Water use
Medium
Plant type
Ornamental grasses and sedges Perennial

From USDA PLANTS and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

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