Species: Carex bipartita
Arctic Hare's-foot Sedge
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Anthophyta
Class
Monocotyledoneae
Order
Cyperales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Carex
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Lachenal's Sedge - Two-tipped Sedge - carex de Lachenal - twotipped sedge
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Sedge Family
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Anthophyta - Monocotyledoneae - Cyperales - Cyperaceae - Carex - Goes by synonym C. lachenalii in many Alaskan and Canadian floras.
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1993-04-22
Global Status Last Changed
1993-04-22
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
According to Hulten (1968) and Porsild and Cody (1980) it is circumboreal in distribution. In the Rocky Mountains it is disjunct.