Cymophyllus
| Carex fraseriana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex Mack. ex Britton & A.Br. |
| Species: | C. fraseriana |
| Binomial name | |
| Carex fraseriana Ker Gawl. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Carex fraseriana is a perennial of the sedge family with the common name Fraser's sedge. I was the only species of the genus Cymophyllus before it was re-transferred to Carex.[2][3][4]
Carex fraseriana is native to the Great Smoky Mountains and southern Appalachian region of the southeastern United States.[1] It is endangered in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland and Georgia.[5]
References
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Flora of North America, Vol. 23 Page 573, Cymophyllus fraserianus (Ker Gawler) Kartesz & Gandhi, Rhodora. 93: 138. 1991.
- ↑ Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, Duhl, Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians, Lone Pine Publishing, (2005) p 398, ISBN 978-1-55105-428-5,
- ↑ Global Carex Group 2015 Making Carex monophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription
- ↑ Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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