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Carex cephalophora Willd.

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

Deciduous forests and thickets of all kinds, usually in dry oak, oak-hickory, or aspen, but occasionally in moist beech-maple stands; often on hillsides and banks.

The ventral surface of the sheaths is slightly thickened and concave at the summit. Occasionally one may key a specimen of C. cephaloidea here, but that species has the ventral surface of the sheaths very fragile, not thickened at the truncate summit, as well as an even more strongly scabrous culm above. See also remarks under C. muehlenbergii and C. leavenworthii.

A. A. Reznicek

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Allegan
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Clinton
Eaton
Genesee
Gratiot
Hillsdale
Ingham
Ionia
Jackson
Kalamazoo
Kent
Lapeer
Lenawee
Livingston
Macomb
Mecosta
Monroe
Montcalm
Muskegon
Newaygo
Oakland
Ogemaw
Ontonagon
Ottawa
Saginaw
Shiawassee
St. Clair
St. Joseph
Tuscola
Van Buren
Washtenaw
Wayne
Wexford

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/930