Cyperaceae
Glacial sedge
Carex glacialis
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Carex
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Common names
By language (6)
- English
- Glacial sedge
- Finnish
- Varvassara
- French
- Laîche des glaciers, Laiche des glaciers
- Icelandic
- Dvergstör
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Rabbestarr
- Swedish
- Isstarr
Synonyms
- Carex glacialis var. glacialis
- Carex glacialis var. terrae-novae (Fernald) B.Boivin
- Carex pedata Wahlenb.
- Carex terrae-novae Fernald
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Greenland: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Ragnhild&Neil Crawford from Sweden, 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.