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Carex haydeniana is a species of sedge known by the common name cloud sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to New Mexico, where it grows in moist, rocky areas in subalpine and alpine climates. This sedge produces clumps of drooping to decumbent stems up to 30 or 40 centimeters long, often much shorter. There are a few flat leaves per stem, each up to about 16 centimeters long. The flower cluster is a dense dark brown spherical cluster of indistinct spikelets.

Plant type

Grass

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Color

Brown

Special uses

Containers

Sun

Partial Shade

Site type

Rocky slopes, flats, moist soil

Plant communities

Alpine Fell-Fields, Subalpine Forest, Wetland-Riparian

Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

0 confirmed and 5 likely

Confirmed Likely

Common Ringlet

Coenonympha tullia

Olive Green Cutworm Moth

Dargida procinctus

Dun Skipper

Euphyes vestris

Umber Skipper

Poanes melane