Carried by 0 nurseries
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Carex nigricans is a species of sedge known by the common name black alpine sedge. It is native to western North America from Alaska to northern California to Colorado, where it grows in wet areas in mountain, taiga, and tundra habitat. This sedge produces thick mats and loose clumps of stems up to 30 centimeters tall from a network of short rhizomes. The pistillate flowers have dark leafs and the fruit is covered in a dark colored, long beaked perigynium.
Grass
1 ft Tall
Brown
Containers
Partial Shade
Wet, rocky slopes, meadows
Alpine Fell-Fields, Subalpine Forest, Wetland-Riparian
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 5 likely
Common Ringlet
Coenonympha tullia
Olive Green Cutworm Moth
Dargida procinctus
Dun Skipper
Euphyes vestris
Umber Skipper
Poanes melane