Species
Carex lyngbyei (Lyngbye’s sedge)
Carex lyngbyei. Photo: (c) Tab Tannery, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Carex lyngbyei is a species of sedge known by the common name Lyngbye’s sedge. It is native to the west coast of North America from Alaska to California, where it “is the common sedge of the Pacific coastal salt marshes.” It is also known from Greenland and Iceland. It prefers to grow in silty sediment rather than sand and in habitat with brackish water, such as salt marshes. This sedge produces stems 25 centimeters to well…
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