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Carex bullata Schkuhr ex Willd.  

button sedge; bull sedge


Carex bullata
Carex bullata
Photo by Renee Brecht Britton and Brown. See credits below.**

Botanical name: Carex bullata Schkuhr ex Willd.
Common name: button sedge; bull sedge
Group: monocot
Family: Cyperaceae
Growth Type: graminoid
Duration: perennial
Origin: native
Plant height: fertile shoots 3-8.5 dm tall
Flowering/fruiting time bloom/fruit late May to September
Habitat: acid, wet soil of swamps and bogs
Range in New Jersey: throughout the pine barresn; infrequent elsewhere on the Coastal Plain
Heritage ranking if any: n/a
Distribution:
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Sources

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 435.
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