Crested Sedge
Scientific Name:Carex cristatella


NOTES: All spikes are stalkless with staminate (male) flowers at the base and pistillate (female) flowers at the tip (gynecandrous).

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Crested Sedge
Genus species: Carex cristatella
Common Name: Crested Sedge
Family Name: Cyperaceae  
Annual or perennial herbs, often with triangular stems (culms), the pith usually present; leaves alternate, the blades simple, grasslike (linear with parallel venation), with a tubular sheath usually closed at the apex; flowers (florets) bisexual or unisexual, very small, in spikelets; fruit an achene or nutlet, often triangular or lenticular.
Seed Type: Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Sedge
CNC Habitat: Nature Playscape
Identified by:J.D. Mancini
Months in Bloom:  
The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicate when the plant has been observed blooming.
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