Carex curvula, the Alpine sedge (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Carpathians, and the mountains of the Balkans.[2] It has gone extinct in Germany.[2] It propagates almost exclusively clonally, with some of its clonal colonies estimated to be 2,000 years old.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex |
| Species: | C. curvula
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| Carex curvula | |
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Subtaxa
editThe following subspecies are currently accepted:[2]
- Carex curvula subsp. curvula
- Carex curvula subsp. rosae Gilomen
References
edit- ^ Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785)
- ^ a b c d "Carex curvula All". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ Steinger, Thomas; Körner, Christian; Schmid, Bernhard (1996). "Long-term persistence in a changing climate: DNA analysis suggests very old ages of clones of alpine Carex curvula". Oecologia. 105 (1): 94–99. Bibcode:1996Oecol.105...94S. doi:10.1007/BF00328796. PMID 28307127. S2CID 25924193.