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False hair sedge

Carex bulbostylis

Also called Eastern Narrowleaf Sedge, Thick Style Sedge

Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Grass, Bulb
Native range
Tennessee to Texas
Climate
temperate

About

Carex bulbostylis, known as the false hair sedge, is a species of sedge native to the southcentral and southeastern United States. It was first formally named by Kenneth Mackenzie in 1915. It is also known as the eastern narrowleaf sedge, thick style sedge, and globose sedge.

It has previously been treated as a variety of both Carex amphibola and Carex grisea.

Where it grows

Carex bulbostylis is endemic to the southern United States where it occurs from eastern Texas and Oklahoma to Mississippi, with a disjunct population in southwestern Tennessee.

Other Carex plants

Carex abitibiana · Indian Valley sedge · Abruptbeak sedge · Thicket sedge · Small Dusky Sedge · Seoul Sedge · Acid Loving Sedge · Carex acocksii · Slender Tufted-sedge · Carex acutata · Lesser pond sedge · Circumpolar sedge

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carex bulbostylis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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