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Carex coninux

Carex coninux
Photo: "02101024.tif" - Carex coninux (F.T.Wang & Tang) S.R.Zhang Collected in India (licensed under https://creativecommons.or, CC0
Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Tibet to N. & C. China
Climate
temperate

About

Carex coninux is a tussock-forming perennial in the family Cyperaceae. It is endemic to parts of central and eastern Asia from Afghanistan in the south west through to northern parts of China and Mongolia in the north east.

Where it grows

The plant is found is temperate biomes from Afghanistan and Pakistan in the south-west and Tajikistan in the north-east stretching eastward through the western Himalaya and Tibet and into Mongolia and northern and central parts of China including the provinces of Qinghai and Xinjiang.

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 coninux 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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