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Carex crawfordii Fernald

Common Name: SEDGE
Coefficient of Conservatism: 4
Coefficient of Wetness: -3
Wetness Index: FACW
Physiognomy: Nt P-Sedge

Usually on wet sandy shores or in meadows, ditches, and marshy ground, occasionally in forests, especially in clearings and along roads; and on dry sandy ridges (especially near Lake Superior). Apparently always in acidic soils.

The extremely narrow and strongly flattened perigynia are distinctive.

A. A. Reznicek

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Counties
Alger
Baraga
Benzie
Cheboygan
Cheboygan or Emmet
Chippewa
Delta
Emmet
Gogebic
Houghton
Iron
Kalkaska
Keweenaw
Leelanau
Luce
Mackinac
Marquette
Newaygo
Ontonagon
Otsego
Schoolcraft

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/938