Carex subfusca, variously called the rusty slender sedge, rusty sedge, or brown sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to the Hawaiian Islands, the western United States, and Baja California. It is surmised that it came to Hawaii by being deposited by a bird (epizoochory).
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Rusty slender sedge being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Carex fracta
- Carex straminiformis
- Carex egglestonii
- Carex athrostachya
- Carex bonplandii
- Carex occidentalis
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Carex
- Species
- Carex subfusca
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