Cyperaceae
Twocolor sedge
Carex bicolor
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Carex
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Common names
By language (6)
- English
- Twocolor sedge
- Finnish
- Loikosara
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Hvitstarr
- Russian
- Осока двуцветная
- Swedish
- Brokstarr
- Ukrainian
- Осока двоколірна
Synonyms
- Carex androgyna Balb.
- Carex bicolor var. bicolor
- Carex bicolor var. minima (Boullu) Nyman
- Carex cenisia Balb.
- Carex minima Boullu
- Carex pusilla Pers.
- Vignea bicolor (Bellardi ex All.) Rchb.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Greenland: native
Photos
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Thommybe assumed, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Gabriel OLLIVIER, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Ragnhild&Neil Crawford from Sweden, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Gabriel OLLIVIER, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Ragnhild&Neil Crawford from Sweden, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: syrinx, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Ragnhild&Neil Crawford from Sweden, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Jeffery M. Saarela, Paul C. Sokoloff, Roger D. Bull, CC BY 4.0, 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.