Cyperaceae
Grass-like sedge
Carex panicea
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Carex
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Common names
By language (23)
- Bulgarian
- Просена острица
- Czech
- Ostřice prosová
- Danish
- Hirse-Star
- Dutch
- Blauwe zegge
- English
- Grass-like sedge, Carnation sedge
- Estonian
- Hirsstarn
- Finnish
- Hirssisara
- French
- Laîche bleuâtre
- German
- Hirse-Segge, Hirsensegge
- hsb
- Jahłojta rězna
- Hungarian
- Muharsás
- Icelandic
- Belgjastör
- Latvian
- Sēres grīslis
- Lithuanian
- Viksva trainė
- Macedonian
- Просолика острика
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Kornstarr
- Persian
- کارکس پانیسیا
- Polish
- Turzyca prosowata
- Russian
- Осока просяная
- Swedish
- Hirsstarr
- Tatar
- Тары күрәне
- Ukrainian
- Осока просовидна
- Welsh
- Hesgen lwydlas
Synonyms
- Carex efflata Laest. ex Trevir.
- Carex panicea f. binata Lackow. ex Kük.
- Carex panicea f. conferta N.H.Nilsson ex Neuman
- Carex panicea f. ferruginea Neuman
- Carex panicea f. gracilis Lange
- Carex panicea f. humilis Meinsh.
- Carex panicea f. latifolia Waisb.
- Carex panicea f. longipedunculata Asch. & Graebn.
- Carex panicea f. melanocarpa Waisb.
- Carex panicea f. microcarpa Sond. ex W.D.J.Koch
- Carex panicea f. nigra Kuntze
- Carex panicea f. pallida Blytt
- Carex panicea f. refracta Peterm.
- Carex panicea f. robusta Warnst.
- Carex panicea f. tumidula Laest.
- Carex panicea subsp. dalmatica Degen & B.Lengyel
- Carex panicea subsp. pelia (O.Lang) Nyman
- Carex panicea var. elatior Gaudin
- Carex panicea var. gynobasica Merino
- Carex panicea var. hercynica Láng
- Carex panicea var. intermedia Meinsh.
- Carex panicea var. microcarpa W.D.J.Koch
- Carex panicea var. praestabilis Waisb.
- Carex panicea var. rhizogyna Gaudin
- Carex panicea var. sublivida Hartm. ex Andersson
- Carex panicea var. tumidula (Laest.) Andersson
- Carex pelia O.Lang
- Carex sublivida Norrl.
- Trasus paniceus (L.) Gray
- Trasus paniceus var. androgynus Gray
- Trasus paniceus var. distachyos Gray
- Trasus paniceus var. leersii Gray
Flowers
- In flower
- May to June (from 28 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Greenland: native, Lower 48 states: introduced, St. Pierre and Miquelon: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Jens Ullenius, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 15:28, 18 July 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Kian Hayles-Cotton, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 15:28, 18 July 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Anastasia Titovets, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ljaž, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Kian Hayles-Cotton, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Pełnik, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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.