Cyperaceae
Few-flowered sedge
Carex pauciflora
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Carex
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Common names
By language (19)
- Belarusian
- Асака малакветкавая
- Czech
- Ostřice chudokvětá
- Danish
- Fåblomstret Star
- Dutch
- Armbloemige zegge
- English
- Few-flowered sedge, Fewflower sedge
- Estonian
- Õievähene tarn
- Finnish
- Rahkasara
- German
- Armblütige Segge, Wenigblütige Segge
- hsb
- Snadnokwětna rězna
- Japanese
- タカネハリスゲ
- Latvian
- Mazziedu grīslis
- Lithuanian
- Retažiedė viksva
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Sveltstarr
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Sveltstorr
- Persian
- کارکس پاکیفلورا
- Polish
- Turzyca skąpokwiatowa
- Russian
- Осока малоцветковая
- Swedish
- Taggstarr
- Welsh
- Hesgen brinflodeuog
Synonyms
- Anithista patula Raf.
- Carex leucoglochin L.f.
- Carex patula Huds.
- Carex pauciflora f. elatior Kük. & J.Schust.
- Carex phyllophora Kunth
- Caricinella pauciflora (Lightf.) St.-Lag.
- Leucoglochin pauciflorus (Lightf.) Heuff.
- Psyllophora pauciflora (Lightf.) Schur
- Trasus pauciflorus (Lightf.) Gray
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native, St. Pierre and Miquelon: native
Photos
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Photo: Jean-Claude Bouzat, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Jean-Claude Bouzat, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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- Common sedgeCarex nigraCyperaceae
- European woodland sedgeCarex sylvaticaCyperaceae
- Tufted sedgeCarex elataCyperaceae
- Hairy sedgeCarex hirtaCyperaceae
- Lesser pond sedgeCarex acutiformisCyperaceae
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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.