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Carex lasiocarpa is a species of sedge known by the common names slender sedge and woollyfruit sedge. This is an aquatic or shore plant of wet areas in mountainous areas of moderate elevation. It is found across much of North America and Eurasia. It is colonial, forming thick, floating mats on the water in wetlands and monotypic stands on shorelines and lakesides. From a rhizome it bears erect stems which may exceed a meter in height and very long, very thin leaves. The stem has one to several compact pistillate spikes and at the tip one longer, fluffy staminate spike. The pistillate spike vaguely resembles a tiny purplish or brownish ear of corn, with several ovaries which each form a fruit.
Grass
2 - 4 ft Tall
Brown
Containers
Full Sun
Lake and pond shores
Freshwater Marsh
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 6 likely
American Ear Moth
Amphipoea americana
Common Ringlet
Coenonympha tullia
Olive Green Cutworm Moth
Dargida procinctus
Dun Skipper
Euphyes vestris