🌿 Family

Cyperaceae

585 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Liliopsida › Poales › Cyperaceae

Fimbristylis puberula (Michx.) Vahl

Fimbristylis puberula, hairy fimbry, is a perennial sedge native to North America with a patchy widespread distribution.

Fimbristylis ferruginea (L.) Vahl

Fimbristylis ferruginea, commonly rusty sedge or West Indian fimbry, is a flowering fimbry native to multiple regions across the world.

Fimbristylis polytrichoides (Retz.) Vahl

Fimbristylis polytrichoides, commonly called rusty sedge, is a coastal flowering fimbry native to multiple regions of the Eastern Hemisphere.

Abildgaardia ovata (Burm.f.) Kral

Abildgaardia ovata is a perennial sedge that grows in wet grasslands and as a weed in Asia and Florida.

Carex barrattii Torr. ex Schwein.

Barratt's sedge, Carex barrattii, is an endemic US sedge that favors open sunny acidic fire-dependent wet habitats, rarely flowering.

Carex scirpoidea Michx.

Carex scirpoidea is a dioecious sedge species native to parts of northern Europe, Asia, and North America.

Carex picta Steud.

Carex picta Steud. is a tussock-forming perennial sedge in Cyperaceae, native to southeastern North America.

Carex heteroneura S.Watson

Carex heteroneura is a variable sedge with clumped stems, dense bicolored spikes, and greenish or purplish perigynia with short rounded tips.

Carex raynoldsii Dewey

Carex raynoldsii is a clumping sedge native to mountain meadows of western North America.

Carex atratiformis Britton

Carex atratiformis is a scrabrous black sedge flowering plant in Cyperaceae, native to Canada and the Northeastern US.

Carex media R.Br.

Carex media R.Br. is a tussock-forming perennial Cyperaceae native to North America and Northern Europe.

Carex atrata L.

Black alpine sedge (Carex atrata L.) is a widespread flowering plant native to parts of Eurasia and the North Atlantic.

Carex parviflora Host

Carex parviflora (small-flowered sedge) is a Carex species native to central and southern Europe with 2n=54 chromosomes.

Carex hartmaniorum A.Cajander

Carex hartmaniorum A.Cajander is a flowering plant species in the Cyperaceae family native from Europe to Central Asia.

Carex atherodes Spreng.

Wheat sedge (Carex atherodes) is a common native wetland sedge found across Eurasia and much of North America.

Carex bicolor Bellardi ex All.

Carex bicolor is a small pan-boreal perennial sedge found in lime-rich habitats, with a disputed historical British discovery claim.

Carex garberi Fernald

Carex garberi Fernald is a northern North American sedge that grows in loose clumps and favors wet forest and meadow habitats.

Carex amplifolia Boott

Carex amplifolia Boott is a rhizomatous sedge with winged stems, hairy leaves, and elongated flower spikes.

Carex sempervirens Vill.

Carex sempervirens Vill. is a perennial grass-like sedge that grows in mountain grasslands and rocky habitats, flowering from May to August.

Carex atrofusca Schkuhr

Carex atrofusca Schkuhr is a small perennial tufted monoecious sedge with separate male and female spikes.

Carex mucronata All.

Carex mucronata All. is a flowering Carex species native to select European mountains with a documented chromosome count of 2n=36.

Carex fuliginosa Schkuhr

Carex fuliginosa (short-leaved sedge) is a wind-pollinated Cyperaceae flowering plant with a circumpolar distribution.

Carex L.

Carex lurida is a clump-forming wetland sedge native from Eastern Canada to Ecuador, introduced to New Zealand.

Carex lepidocarpa Tausch

Carex lepidocarpa is a flowering plant species in the genus Carex, native to eastern Canada, Morocco, and most of Europe, part of the Carex flava complex.

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