Carex laxiculmis Schweinitz
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Detail
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Botanical Name
- Carex laxiculmis Schweinitz
- Common Name
- Spreading Sedge
- Synonym(s)
- Carex laxiculmis Schweinitz var. laxiculmis
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Carex laxiculmis Schweinitz
- Comments
- See Comments under Carex copulata. The two species are sometimes treated as vars. of C. laxiculmis but are morphologically and ecologically distinct.
- Habitat
- Well-drained floodplain forests and small-stream alluvial forests, mesic to dry-mesic upland forests; most typical and abundant in moist, acidic, nutrient-poor soils of stream bottoms and ravines, but occasionally in moderately base-rich soils and occasionally extending to high elevations. Frequent to locally common in the mountains, Piedmont, and inner Coastal Plain; infrequent in the outer Coastal Plain.
- Native Status
- Native
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