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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Carex crawei   FAMILY Cyperaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex crawei   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Carex crawei

 

COMMON NAME:
Crawe's Sedge


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image of Carex crawei, Crawe's Sedge

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_cacr3_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Carex crawei   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex crawei   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Carex crawei

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2339

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Monoecious

Habitat: calcareous barrens, usually in gravelly areas with ephemeral or periodic seepage, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & low alternate, 3-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes long-creeping, thus the culms mostly solitary

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Perianth absent
3 stamens
Superior ovary
Unisexual

Inflorescences: spikes (terminal spike staminate; lateral spikes pistillate)

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Nutlet

 

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