| Carex bostrychostigma | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex |
| Species: | C. bostrychostigma |
| Binomial name | |
| Carex bostrychostigma Maxim. | |
The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus Carex with over 2,000 species.
Carex is a vast genus of more than 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges. Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus Carex may be called true sedges, and it is the most species-rich genus in the family. The study of Carex is known as caricology.
Carex vesicaria is an essentially Holarctic species of sedge known as bladder sedge, inflated sedge, and blister sedge. It has been used to insulate footwear in Norway and among the Sami people, and for basketry in North America.
Carex rainbowii is a species of sedge found in the understorey of Afromontane forests in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa. It had previously been misidentified as introduced populations of Carex sylvatica, but was published as a new species in 2013.
Carex gunniana is an Australia species of sedge that was first described in 1845 by Boott in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. It is native to eastern Australia and Tasmania.
Carex viridula, known as little green sedge, green sedge, or greenish sedge, is a small flowering plant native to North America, Europe, Asia, and Morocco.
Carex tetanica is a species of sedge and is native to the US and Canada
Carex vacillans is a species of sedge.
Carex vestita is a species of sedge.
Carex virescens is a species of sedge and is native to Canada and the US.
Carex xerantica is a species of sedge.
Carex × beckmannii is a species of sedge and is native to Europe.
Carex × biharica is a species of sedge and is native to Europe.
Carex × danielis is a species of sedge and is native to Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia, France, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Carex × elytroides is a species of sedge and is native to Europe.
Carex × evoluta is a species of sedge and is native to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Russia, Norway, Poland, Romania, and Sweden.
Carex × helvola is a species of sedge and is native to Austria, Finland, France, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, Maine, New Brunswick, Norway, Quebec, Sweden, and Yukon.
Carex × involuta is a species of sedge and is native to Europe.
Carex × knieskernii is a species of sedge and is native to Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Ontaio, Quebec, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Carex pallescens, called pale sedge, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to the northeastern United States, eastern Canada, Iceland, Europe, Tunisia, and western Asia. It has unstable chromosome numbers.