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Rare Spring-sedge

Carex ericetorum

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 822, February 607, March 952, April 1,497, May 2,159, June 2,354, July 2,519, August 2,166, September 1,590, October 1,187, November 649, December 507.
United States17,008
Alaska17,008
Russia782
Bryansk Oblast83
Vladimir Oblast83
Germany80
Ukraine80
Leningrad oblast68
Moscow Oblast63
Chuvashia53

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Classification

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

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