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Carex praegracilis is a species of North American sedge known as clustered field sedge, field sedge, and expressway sedge. [1] Carex praegracilis is cultivated in the specialty horticulture trade as lawn substitute and meadow-like plantings.
Carex is a vast genus of over 2,000 species [2] of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books). 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.
Carex divisa is a species of sedge known by the common names divided sedge [1] [2] and separated sedge. [3] It is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and considered naturalized in Australia, New Zealand, and scattered locations in North America.
The Cyperaceae (/ ˌ s aɪ p ə ˈ r eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /) are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges.The family is large; botanists have described some 5,500 known species in about 90 genera [3] [4] – the largest being the "true sedges" (genus Carex), [5] [6] with over 2,000 species.
The name Carex deweyana was first published in the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, 1: 65 in 1824 in an article written by Lewis David de Schweinitz. [2] The type locality of this species is identified as New England. [2] Carex deweyana belongs to Carex sect. Deweyanae. [3] Carex deweyana contains the following varieties:
Non-native grasses are classified as invasive if they have the following three attributes: The grass must have a pathway to be delivered to a new location, e.g. boat, shoe, animal, vehicle, feed, contaminated seed, etc. It is able to tolerate its new environment long enough to establish and reproduce. It is able to coexist with native plants.
Carex pansa is a species of sedge known by the common name sand dune sedge. It is native to coast of western North America from British Columbia to California, where it grows in dunes and other sandy habitat. This grasslike sedge produces sharply triangular stems up to about 40 centimeters tall from a network of thin, long, coarse rhizomes.