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Buxbaum's sedge
Scientific Name: Carex buxbaumii
Family: Cyperaceae
Category: Monocot
Growth: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
Other Names: CT (brown bog sedge), KY (brown bog sedge), MD (Bu
Buxbaum's Sedge (Carex buxbaumii)
Carex buxbaumii, commonly known as Buxbaum's sedge or club sedge, is a sedge species found across the northern Northern Hemisphere.
Taxonomy and Nomenclature
- Scientific Name: Carex buxbaumii Wahlenb.
- Common Names: Buxbaum's sedge, club sedge, brown bog sedge
- Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge Family)
- Synonyms:
- Carex buxbaumii subsp. subulata (Schum.) Liro
- Carex polygama subsp. subulata
Distribution and Habitat
- Native to much of the northern Northern Hemisphere, from Alaska.
- Habitats include wet, spongy bogs.
- Range is described as local in many areas.
Morphological Characteristics
- Rhizomatous
- Terminal spike usually gynecandrous (having both pistillate and staminate flowers in the same spike, with the pistillate flowers above the staminate)
- 2 to 4 pistillate spikes not crowded at the apex.