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Carex myosuroides
Also called Bellard's Kobresia, Pacific Bog Sedge, Mouse Tail Bog Sedge, Mouse Tail Kobresia, Bellardi Bog Sedge, Bellard’s Kobresia
Carex myosuroides is a small perennial sedge from cool northern regions, found in bogs and wet tundra across the Northern Hemisphere. It is the only sedge known to form ectomycorrhizal partnerships with fungi, so keep its wet, cool, nutrient-poor habitat in mind.
Carex myosuroides (syn. Kobresia myosuroides), the mouse-tail bog sedge, is a species of sedge (family Cyperaceae) with a circumboreal distribution. It is the only known sedge to have ectomycorrhizal associations.
It is a known host to a number of fungi, including Anthracoidea elynae, Arthrinium puccinioides, Cladosporium herbarum, Clathrospora elynae, Lophodermium caricinum, Phaeosphaeria herpotrichoides, Schizonella melanogramma, Septoria punctoidea and possibly to Micropeziza cornea.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carex myosuroides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
