Carex rupestris

Carex rupestris, called the curly sedge and rock sedge (names it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to temperate and subarctic North America, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, and Asia.[2] It prefers to grow on rocky ledges.[3]

Carex rupestris
On a mountainside in the Czech Republic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. rupestris
Binomial name
Carex rupestris
Synonyms[2]
List
    • Caricinella rupestris (All.) St.-Lag.
    • Edritria rupestris (All.) Raf.

Subtaxa

The following subspecies are currently accepted:[2]

  • Carex rupestris subsp. altimontana T.V.Ebel
  • Carex rupestris subsp. rupestris

References
  1. Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785)
  2. "Carex rupestris All". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  3. Chlebicki, Andrzej (2014). "Biogeographic relationships between fungi and selected glacial relict plants". Monographiae Botanicae. 90: 1–230. doi:10.5586/mb.2002.001.


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