Cyperaceae
Meadow sedge
Carex praticola
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Carex
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Common names
By language (4)
- English
- Meadow sedge, Broad-scale sedge, Piper's sedge, Broadscale sedge
- Finnish
- Amerikanniittysara
- Persian
- کارکس پراتیکلا
- Swedish
- Vägstarr
Synonyms
- Carex furva (L.H.Bailey) Piper
- Carex piperi Mack.
- Carex platylepis Mack.
- Carex pratensis Drejer
- Carex pratensis f. furva (L.H.Bailey) Kük.
- Carex pratensis var. furva L.H.Bailey
- Carex praticola var. furva (L.H.Bailey) A.Heller
- Carex praticola var. praticola
- Carex praticola var. subcoriacea F.J.Herm.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Greenland: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, 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.