Summary ²

Native perennial herbaceous species flowering in May through June. found in fresh marsh communities in open areas between dunes. Infrequent on the island. Found at Fox Hills and North Beach. Rare in Maryland and entire mid-Atlantic region.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Lewnanny Richardson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Lewnanny Richardson
2. Adapted by Hannah Penn from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carex_silicea

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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