| Carex rupestris | |
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| On a mountainside in the Czech Republic | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae | 
| Clade: | Tracheophytes | 
| Clade: | Angiosperms | 
| Clade: | Monocots | 
| Clade: | Commelinids | 
| Order: | Poales | 
| Family: | Cyperaceae | 
| Genus: | Carex | 
| Species: | C. rupestris  | 
| Binomial name | |
| Carex rupestris | |
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Carex rupestris, called the curly sedge and rock sedge (names it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to temperate and subarctic North America, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, and Asia.[2] It prefers to grow on rocky ledges.[3]
Subtaxa
The following subspecies are currently accepted:[2]
- Carex rupestris subsp. altimontana T.V.Ebel
 - Carex rupestris subsp. rupestris
 
References
- โ Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785)
 - 1 2 3 "Carex rupestris All". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
 - โ Chlebicki, Andrzej (2014). "Biogeographic relationships between fungi and selected glacial relict plants". Monographiae Botanicae. 90: 1โ230. doi:10.5586/mb.2002.001.
 
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