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threeseeded sedge
Carex trisperma
Carex trisperma, the three-seeded sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Canada, Greenland, and the northeastern United States. It is typically found in acidic bogs within forests.
From the article Carex trisperma on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Carex trisperma is a clump-forming, perennial plant, which grows from a rhizome. Leaves are basal and alternate, flat, with whitish leaf sheaths. Stems are slender, measuring up to 2 feet in length. There are generally up the 3 stalkless spikes, with staminate flowers at the base and pistillate flowers at the tip. Basal sheaths are brownish in colour. The fruit is an achene, developing in late spring through to summer.
Range & habitat
Carex trisperma has a circumpolar distribution, favouring wetland conditions, swampland, bogs within coniferous forests.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 130808.