Carex brizoides

{{Short description|Species of grass-like plant}}

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|image=Carex brizoides kz01.jpg

|image_caption=Inflorescence

|image2=Carex brizoides - Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg - DSC07826.JPG

|image2_caption=At the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg

|genus=Carex

|species=brizoides

|authority=L.Cent. Pl. I: 31 (1755)

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• Carex enervis Dulac
• Carex praecox J.Jundz.
• Carex psammophila Schur
• Caricina brizoidea (L.) St.-Lag.
• Vignea brizoides (L.) Rchb.
• Vignea psammophila Schur
• Vignea pseudobrizoides Schur
• Vignea pseudoschreberi Schur

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Carex brizoides, the quaking sedge or quaking-grass sedge, is a species in the genus Carex, native to central and southern Europe.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:298947-1 |title=Carex brizoides L. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=16 December 2020 }} Even where it is a native species, in disturbed woodlands it tends to behave invasively, forming a thick layer on the forest floor and reducing species diversity.{{cite journal |title=An attempt to restore a central European species-rich mountain grassland through grazing |year=2003 |last1=Matějková |first1=Ivona |last2=Van Diggelen |first2=Rudy |last3=Prach |first3=Karel |journal=Applied Vegetation Science |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=161–168 |doi=10.1111/j.1654-109X.2003.tb00576.x }}{{cite journal |title=The invasibility of deciduous forest communities after disturbance: A case study of Carex brizoides and Impatiens parviflora invasion |year=2007 |last1=Chmura |first1=Damian |last2=Sierka |first2=Edyta |journal=Forest Ecology and Management |volume=242 |issue=2–3 |pages=487–495 |doi=10.1016/j.foreco.2007.01.083 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/5121556 }}

{{Gallery|File:Carex brizoides3.JPG|A dense stand}}