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Smooth-stalked Sedge

Carex laevigata

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 236, February 174, March 273, April 429, May 618, June 674, July 721, August 620, September 456, October 340, November 186, December 145.
United States4,873
Alaska4,872
Portugal19
Spain18
France18
Galicia12
Bretagne7
GUARDA6
AVEIRO4
Andalucía3

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Classmonocots · Liliopsida
Ordergrasses, sedges, cattails, and allies · Poales
FamilySedges · Cyperaceae
Genustrue sedges · Carex

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