Carex curvula

Carex curvula
Flowers
Botanical illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. curvula
Binomial name
Carex curvula
Synonyms
List
    • Caricina curvula (All.) St.-Lag.
    • Cryptoglochin curvulus (All.) Heuff.
    • Kobresia curvula (All.) N.A.Ivanova

Carex curvula, the Alpine sedge (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Carpathians, and the mountains of the Balkans. It has gone extinct in Germany. It propagates almost exclusively clonally, with some of its clonal colonies estimated to be 2,000 years old.