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thin-spiked wood sedge

Carex strigosa

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 198, February 146, March 229, April 360, May 519, June 566, July 606, August 521, September 382, October 285, November 156, December 122.
United States4,093
Alaska4,090
Germany83
United Kingdom39
England39
Niedersachsen39
Baden-Württemberg25
France23
Île-de-France14
Hessen6

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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