Carex subspathacea
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex |
| Species: | C. subspathacea
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Carex subspathacea, called Hoppner's sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to coastal salt marshes of the Arctic and northwest Pacific Oceans; Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, northern and far eastern Russia, Korea, and Japan.[2] It is grazed by snow geese (Anser caerulescens).[3]
References
[edit]- ^ G.C.Oeder & al. (eds.), Fl. Dan. 9: 4, t. 1530 (1816)
- ^ a b "Carex subspathacea Wormsk. ex Hornem". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ Kotanen, P.; Jefferies, R. L. (1987). "The Leaf and Shoot Demography of Grazed and Ungrazed Plants of Carex subspathacea". Journal of Ecology. 75 (4): 961–975. doi:10.2307/2260307. JSTOR 2260307.
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