Cyperaceae
Water sedge
Carex aquatilis
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Carex
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Common names
By language (17)
- arz
- كاريكس اكواتيليس
- azb
- سۇ جیلی
- Azerbaijani
- Su cili
- Belarusian
- Асака вадзяная
- Czech
- Ostřice vodní
- Dutch
- Noordse zegge
- English
- Water sedge, Aquatic sedge, Leafy tussock sedge
- Estonian
- Vesitarn
- Finnish
- Vesisara
- German
- Wasser-Segge
- hsb
- Wódna rězna
- Latvian
- Ūdens grīslis
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Nordlandsstarr
- Persian
- کارکس آکواتیلیس
- Russian
- Осока водяная, Осока водная
- Swedish
- Norrlandsstarr
- Welsh
- Hesgen y dŵr
Synonyms
- Carex aquatilis subsp. aquatilis
- Carex aquatilis var. genuina Syme
- Carex aquatilis var. pulchella Behm
- Carex varica C.B.Clarke
- Neskiza aquatilis (Wahlenb.) Raf.
- Vignea aquatilis (Wahlenb.) Rchb.
Flowers
- Flower colour
- green (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Greenland: native, Lower 48 states: native, St. Pierre and Miquelon: native
Photos
Photo: Hortus Botanicus Catinensis - Herb. sheet 000735, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: gdahlenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: usuherbarium.usu.edu, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Cochrane, Theodore S.; Cochrane, Barbara A., CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Iltis, Hugh H., CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Smith, S. Galen, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Andrey Zharkikh, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.