genus Carex

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genus Carex - large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges Carex liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed Cyperaceae, family Cyperaceae, sedge family - bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant Carex arenaria, sand reed, sand sedge - European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States; rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla Carex pseudocyperus, cypress sedge - tufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitan