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common sedge

​​Latin name: Carex nigra
Family: Cyperaceae
Other common names; Black sedge
Flowering time: June to August
Height: 7 to 70m
Growing conditions: wet areas
Nectar source for: 
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Description
Carex nigra has rhizomes, normally far creeping, producing at intervals shoots in small or large tufts.
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How to identify: Stems are tall, rough, slender and three sided, and bear leaves normally 1 to 3 mm wide, flat, tapered to fine points, glaucous and mostly erect. Inflorescence has leaf like bracts, the lowest about as long as the inflorescence. Female spikelets 1 to 4, wide, close together and usually stalkless. Glumes are oblong to oval, usually blunt, black with green midrib, the fruit is, wider than the glume, faint ribbed and often with a purple tinge and almost no beak. Male spike purplish brown.
How to propagate: 

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