Trillium Ridge Flora and Fauna
Fox sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
Location: Front raingarden

Range: It is native to North America, including most of Canada and the United States and part of Mexico
The sedge lives in wet and seasonally wet habitat. It produces clumps of stems up to a meter tall. The inflorescence is a dense, tangled cluster of many flower spikes up to about 10 centimeters long. Tolerates fluctuating water levels and periods of drying.
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Genus: Carex (sedges)
Family: Poaceae (grasses)
Order: Cyperales (grasses and sedges)
Class: Liliopsida (Monocots)
Phylum/Division: Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)