Carex spectabilis
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Carex spectabilis is a species of sedge known by the common name showy sedge.
Description
Carex spectabilis produces clusters of stems 50 to 90 centimeters in maximum height, sometimes from rhizomes. The inflorescence is an erect to heavily nodding cluster of flowers covered in dark purplish scales. The fruit is coated in a perigynium which is pale yellowish to dark purple to black.
Distribution
This sedge is native to northwestern North America from Alaska to the Northwestern United States, and in California and Utah. Carex spectabilis grows in moist mountain habitat in subalpine to alpine climates.
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- Carex
- Alpine flora
- Flora of the Northwestern United States
- Flora of the West Coast of the United States
- Flora of Alaska
- Flora of California
- Flora of British Columbia
- Flora of Utah
- Flora of the Cascade Range
- Flora of the Klamath Mountains
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Plants described in 1836
- Flora without expected TNC conservation status