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Carex atrosquama

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Species of grass-like plant

Carex atrosquama
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Section: Carex sect. Racemosae
Species: C. atrosquama
Binomial name
Carex atrosquama
Mack.

Carex atrosquama, the lesser blackscale sedge, is a species of sedge described by Kenneth Kent Mackenzie in 1912. It is native to the northwestern United States and western Canada, from Alaska south to Utah and Colorado. It grows in alpine and subalpine meadows, or along rivers and streams in gravelly areas.

References

  1. "Carex atrosquama". The Plant List. 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  2. NRCS. "Carex atrosquama". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  3. ^ Murray, David F. (2002). "Carex atrosquama". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 23. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 4 August 2020 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Taxon identifiers
Carex atrosquama


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