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Carex morrowii BOOTT |
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Fam.: Cyperaceae / Sedge Fam.
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| Genus: Carex L. |
The Japanese Sedge Carex morrowii is often planted in parks. Especially the attractive variegated form (var. variegata) decorates graves in cemeteries. In the Bochum-Hiltrop cemetery this form has spread from a planting on a grave to two embankments some meters apart. |
| Authors: | |||
| Francis M. B. Boott (1792 - 1863), physician and botanist in USA | |||
| Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals | |||
| Etymology: | |||
| Carex: | carere = missing (seeds are missing at the upper male spike of many species) | ||
| morrowii: | James Morrow (1820 - 1865), North-American botanist who collected plants in Japan | ||
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