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Carex lurida
Also called Sallow sedge, Bottlebrush Sedge
Carex lurida is a tussock-forming flowering plant of the family Cyperaceae, the sedge family. Common names for Carex lurida include shallow sedge, sallow sedge and lurid sedge.
Carex lurida is a wetland plant, preferring marshy conditions such as sedge meadows, swamps and ditches. Its native range is Eastern Canada to Ecuador, and it has also been introduced to New Zealand.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carex lurida 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.
