''Carex crinita'', called fringed sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''

Carex ''Carex'' is a vast genus of more than 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books). Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus ''Carex'' ...

'', native to central and eastern Canada and the central and eastern United States. It is the namesake of the ''Carex crinita''

species complex In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ...

Subtaxa

The following varieties are currently accepted: *''Carex crinita'' var. ''brevicrinis'' Fernald *''Carex crinita'' var. ''crinita'' *''Carex crinita'' var. ''porteri'' (Olney) Fernald

References

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crinita ''Crinita'' is a genus of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 1 ...

Flora of Eastern North America Plants described in 1792