Crawe's Sedge Guide - New York Natural Heritage Program

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Crawe's Sedge

Carex crawei Dewey

Monocots

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Kingdom: Plantae

      Phylum: Anthophyta

           Class: Monocots (Monocotyledoneae)

                Order: Cyperales

                     Family: Sedge Family (Cyperaceae)

Additional Common Names

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Sedge

Comments on the Classification

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Some C. crawei specimens from New York have perigynia characteristics that approach the similar C. microdonta. Carex microdonta is known only form the southern United States. Carex crawei is in section Granulares. This section is considered to be monophyletic and closely related to sections Careyanae and Griseae (Cochrane and Naczi 2002).

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Please cite this page as:
New York Natural Heritage Program. 2013. Online Conservation Guide for Carex crawei. Available from: http://acris.nynhp.org/guide.php?id=9471. Accessed May 25th, 2013.