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Carex retrorsa Schwein.

Common Name: SEDGE
Coefficient of Conservatism: 3
Coefficient of Wetness: -5
Wetness Index: OBL
Physiognomy: Nt P-Sedge

Usually in wet, somewhat shaded ground, especially along swamp borders, ditches, or moist places in forests, seepage areas, alder thickets, swamps, marshy borders of lakes, streams, and rivers; occasionally in bogs and cedar thickets.

Apoparently occasionally hybridizes with Carex lupulina.

 

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Citation:
MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE. A. A. Reznicek, E. G. Voss, & B. S. Walters. February 2011. University of Michigan. Web. March, 17, 2025
https://lsa-miflora-p.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/#/record/1037