Biology:Carex exsiccata
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Carex exsiccata | |
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| On Vancouver Island | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex |
| Species: | C. exsiccata
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| Binomial name | |
| Carex exsiccata | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Carex vesicaria var. major Boott | |
Carex exsiccata, the western inflated sedge or beaked sedge (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to British Columbia, Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, and California.[1][2] Native peoples used its roots to make a black dye.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Carex exsiccata L.H.Bailey" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/46160-2.
- ↑ "Carex exsiccata L.H. Bailey". Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. 30 October 2020. https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CAEX5.
- ↑ Arkush, Brooke S.; Arkush, Denise (2021). "Aboriginal plant use in the central Rocky Mountains: Macrobotanical records from three prehistoric sites in Birch Creek Valley, eastern Idaho". North American Archaeologist 42: 66–108. doi:10.1177/0197693120967005.
Wikidata ☰ Q15570571 entry
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