Carex rupestris

Carex rupestris
On a mountainside in the Czech Republic

Secure  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. rupestris
Binomial name
Carex rupestris
Subspecies
  • Carex rupestris subsp. altimontana T.V.Ebel
  • Carex rupestris subsp. rupestris
Synonyms
Species
  • Caricinella rupestris (All.) St.-Lag.
  • Edritria rupestris (All.) Raf.
subsp. altimontana
  • Carex altimontana (T.V.Ebel) Schekhovts.
subsp. rupestris
  • Carex attenuata R.Br.
  • Carex drummondiana Dewey
  • Carex dufourei Lapeyr.
  • Carex petraea Wahlenb.
  • Carex pulicaris var. montana Pugsley
  • Carex rupestris var. drummondiana (Dewey) L.H.Bailey
  • Carex rupestris subsp. drummondiana (Dewey) Holub
  • Carex rupestris f. pygmaea Bolzon
  • Edritria petraea (Wahlenb.) Raf.

Carex rupestris, called the curly sedge and rock sedge (names it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to temperate and subarctic North America, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, and Asia.

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