Biology:Carex fraseriana
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Short description: Genus of grass-like plants
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex |
| Species: | C. fraseriana
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| Carex fraseriana Ker Gawl.
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Carex fraseriana is a perennial member of the sedge family with the common name Fraser's sedge. It was the only species of the genus Cymophyllus before it was re-transferred to Carex.[2][3][4]
Carex fraseriana is native to the Great Smoky Mountains and southern Appalachian region of the southeastern United States .[1] It is endangered in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland and Georgia.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Flora of North America, Vol. 23 Page 573, Cymophyllus fraserianus (Ker Gawler) Kartesz & Gandhi, Rhodora. 93: 138. 1991.
- ↑ Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, Duhl, Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians, Lone Pine Publishing, (2005) p 398, ISBN:978-1-55105-428-5,
- ↑ Global Carex Group 2015 Making Carex monophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription
- ↑ Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
External links
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