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Carex atherodes ~ wheat sedge

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Characteristics:

OBL
Michigan C Value: 5
wet meadows and mearshes
shallow water at the edges of lakes and ponds
can grow in deeper water (0.6 meter to 0.9 meter), than any other Carex species
several staminate spikelets
pubescent leaves and sheaths
perigynia are strongly nerved and beaks have long teeth
can form dense colonies
native

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