Carex praegracilis (Clustered Field Sedge)

Family

CYPERACEAE

Common Name

Clustered Field Sedge

Agency Status
USFWS	State of NM	USFS	BLM	Navajo Nation	State Rank	Global Rank	R-E-D Code	NMRPTC Status	Strategy Status
					S4S5	G5		D

Distribution

Distributed throughout interior North America from Mich. to British Columbia then south to Mexico (Cronquist et al. 1977). Catron, Grant, McKinley, Sierra, and Socorro counties in New Mexico.

Habitat

In alkaline meadows

Important Literature

Cronquist et al. 1977. Intermountain Flora, Vol. 6 - Monocots. Columbia Univ. Press.

Fritts, Miriam (Pers. Comm. 1998). Carex expert on Colorado and Arizona species. Lives in Tucson (520) 887-7291.

Great Plains Flora Association. 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. Univ. Press of Kansas, Lawrence.

Hermann, F.J. 1970. Carices of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Basin. USFS Ag. Handbook No. 374.

Information Compiled By

Robert Sivinski 1998

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