''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 The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' w ...

, native to British Columbia, Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, and California. Native peoples used its roots to make a black dye.

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exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae refer to numbered collections of dried herbarium specimens respectivel ...

Flora of British Columbia Flora of the Northwestern United States Flora of California Plants described in 1889 {{Carex-stub