''Carex panicea'', commonly known as carnation sedge, is a

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...

species in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It is known as grass-like sedge and can be found in Northern and

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, and also in north-eastern North America. The plant produces

fruit In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particu ...

s which are long, are

egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the a ...

shaped and spiked. Both male and female species leaves are pale blue on both sides.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q126235 panicea Flora of Europe Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus