''Carex muricata'', the rough sedge or prickly sedge (a name it shares with other species), is a species of ''

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'' ...

'' found in Europe and western Asia as far as the Himalayas. It has been introduced elsewhere. Poorly studied, ''Carex muricata'' is considered a

species aggregate 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 ...

. The aggregate has been subject to a great deal of taxonomic confusion over the years and has yet to be fully resolved.

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muricata Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Carex-stub