Carex rupestris

Carex rupestris
	On a mountainside in the Czech Republic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Cyperaceae
Genus:	Carex
Species:	C. rupestris
Binomial name
	Carex rupestris; All.[1]
Synonyms[2]
	List Caricinella rupestris (All.) St.-Lag.; Edritria rupestris (All.) Raf.; ;

Carex rupestris, called the curly sedge and rock sedge (names it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to temperate and subarctic North America, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, and Asia.[2] It prefers to grow on rocky ledges.[3]

Subtaxa

The following subspecies are currently accepted:[2]

Carex rupestris subsp. altimontana T.V.Ebel
Carex rupestris subsp. rupestris

References

Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785)
"Carex rupestris All". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
Chlebicki, Andrzej (2014). "Biogeographic relationships between fungi and selected glacial relict plants". Monographiae Botanicae. 90: 1–230. doi:10.5586/mb.2002.001.

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[1] Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785)

[302034-1-2] "Carex rupestris All". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

[1_of_1790_Google_Scholar_Hits-3] Chlebicki, Andrzej (2014). "Biogeographic relationships between fungi and selected glacial relict plants". Monographiae Botanicae. 90: 1–230. doi:10.5586/mb.2002.001.