Cyperaceae
Pale sedge
Carex pallescens
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Carex
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Common names
By language (17)
- Bulgarian
- Бледа острица
- Czech
- Ostřice bledavá
- Danish
- Bleg Star
- Dutch
- Bleke zegge
- English
- Pale sedge
- Estonian
- Kahkjas tarn
- Finnish
- Kalvassara
- French
- Laîche pâle
- German
- Bleiche Segge, Bleich-Segge
- hsb
- Blěda rězna
- Latvian
- Bālganais grīslis
- Lithuanian
- Balsvoji viksva
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Blekstarr
- Polish
- Turzyca blada
- Russian
- Осока бледноватая, Осока бледнеющая, Осока меднобокая
- Swedish
- Blekstarr
- Welsh
- Hesgen welw
Synonyms
- Carex chalcodeta V.I.Krecz.
- Carex leucantha Schur
- Carex microstoma Franch.
- Carex pallescens f. alpestris Schur
- Carex pallescens f. brevibracteata Neuman
- Carex pallescens f. cylindrica Peterm.
- Carex pallescens f. elatior Asch. & Graebn.
- Carex pallescens f. glaberrima K.Koch
- Carex pallescens f. pygmaea Lackow.
- Carex pallescens subvar. macrocarpa Briq.
- Carex pallescens var. alpestris Kohts
- Carex pallescens var. chalcodeta (V.I.Krecz.) Ö.Nilsson
- Carex pallescens var. leucantha (Schur) Asch. & Graebn.
- Carex pallescens var. luxuriosa Kük.
- Carex pallescens var. macrocarpa (Briq.) Rouy
- Carex pallescens var. neogaea Fernald
- Carex pallescens var. orophila Briq.
- Carex pallescens var. subglabra Beck
- Carex pallescens var. subsilvatica Kük.
- Carex pallescens var. undulata (Kunze) J.Carey
- Carex pallescens var. undulata (Kunze) Andersson
- Carex pallida Salisb.
- Carex tymphaea Formánek
- Carex undulata Kunze
- Trasus pallescens (L.) Gray
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native, St. Pierre and Miquelon: native
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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.