Carex howei Mackenzie
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- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Botanical Name
- Carex howei Mackenzie
- Common Name
- Howe's Sedge
- Synonym(s)
- Carex atlantica Bailey ssp. capillacea (Bailey) Rezn.
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Carex howei Mackenzie
- Comments
- Sometimes treated as a subspecies (ssp. capillacea) of Carex atlantica. This species differs from C. atlantica in its consistently narrower leaves and shorter inflorescences with fewer spikes.
- Habitat
- Bogs, boggy clearings, seeps, and seepage swamps; rarely on sphagnous hummocks of acidic alluvial swamps along headwater streams; often grows in Sphagnum. Frequent in the s. and c. Coastal Plain; infrequent to rare elsewhere.
- Native Status
- Native
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