Carex curvula All. is a plant in the Cyperaceae family, order Poales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Carex curvula All.

Carex curvula All.

Carex curvula All. is a clonal flowering plant native to mountain areas of Europe, now extinct in Germany.

Family
Genus
Carex
Order
Poales
Class
Liliopsida

About Carex curvula All.

Carex curvula All. is commonly called the Alpine sedge, a name that is also used for other species in the genus Carex. It is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Carpathians, and the mountains of the Balkans. This species is considered extinct in Germany. It reproduces almost entirely through clonal propagation, and some of its clonal colonies have been estimated to be 2,000 years old.

Photo: (c) Konrad and Roland Greinwald, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Konrad and Roland Greinwald · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Liliopsida Poales Cyperaceae Carex

More from Cyperaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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