Carex pensylvanica Lam.
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Detail
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Botanical Name
- Carex pensylvanica Lam.
- Common Name
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Carex pensylvanica Lam.
- Comments
- Habitat
- In varied dry-mesic to dry (rarely mesic) forests, woodlands, barrens, grassy balds, and clearings; especially abundant in rocky woodlands, shale and other barrens, and thin soils on rock outcrops of various lithologies; in the inner Coastal Plain and Piedmont fall-line region, it often occurs on high, very well-drained river levees with deep sandy soils; the species occurs across the full gradient of soil chemistries, from extremely acidic to highly calcareous. Common in the mountains and Piedmont; infrequent in the Coastal Plain.
- Native Status
- Native
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