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True Fox-sedge

Carex vulpina

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) hercynicus, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.

United States	9,677
Alaska	9,669
Russia	1,165
Kostroma Oblast	128
Bryansk Oblast	125
Moscow Oblast	118
Ukraine	83
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	78
Tula Oblast	73
Moscow	65

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

Traits

Group and habits

Toxic to humansListed as toxic or not suitable as food for humans by a harvested source.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Grass-like growth formListed by a harvested source as having a graminoid or grass-like growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	monocots · Liliopsida
Order	grasses, sedges, cattails, and allies · Poales
Family	Sedges · Cyperaceae
Genus	true sedges · Carex

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
Traits: USDA PLANTS Characteristics (U.S. Government work / public domain)
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