Carex meadii Dewey
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Detail
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Botanical Name
- Carex meadii Dewey
- Common Name
- Mead's Sedge
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Carex meadii Dewey
- Comments
- This sedge forms large clonal patches with a distinctive bluish (glaucous) cast.
- Habitat
- Open forests, woodlands, barrens, and clearings over mafic and calcareous rocks; usually in alternately wet and dry, clay hardpan soils (in the Piedmont) or in shallow soils with periodic seepage over bedrock. Infrequent to rare, and local, in the Piedmont; rare in the sw. mountains (Ridge and Valley province).
- Native Status
- Native
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