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Photo courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Carex bullata Schkuhr ex Willd. |
| Common name: | button sedge; bull sedge |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | fertile shoots 3-8.5 dm tall |
| Flowering time: | bloom/fruit late May to September |
| Habitat: | acid, wet soil of swamps and bogs |
| Range in New Jersey: | throughout the pine barrens; infrequent elsewhere on the Coastal Plain |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
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| Misc. | For more information on C. bullata, see efloras.org |