Carex divulsa

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

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|image=Carex divulsa — Flora Batava — Volume v18.jpg

|image_caption=Botanical illustration

|genus=Carex

|species=divulsa

|authority=StokesW.Withering, Bot. Arr. Brit. Pl. ed. 2, 2: 1035 (1787)

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• Carex canescens Huds.
• Carex divulsa f. angustifolia (Podp.) Soó
• Carex muricata proles lumnitzeri Rouy
• Carex muricata var. virens (Lam.) Rchb.
• Carex nemorosa Lumn.
• Carex persica Nelmes
• Carex subramosa Willd. ex Kunth
• Carex virens Lam.
• Carex virens var. divulsa (Stokes) F.W.Schultz
• Caricina divulsa (Stokes) St.-Lag.
• Vignea divulsa (Stokes) Rchb.
• Vignea guestphalica Rchb.
• Vignea persica (Nelmes) Soják
• Vignea virens (Lam.) Rchb.

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Carex divulsa, the grey sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Macaronesia, Europe, northwest Africa, the Caucasus region, and the Middle East as far east as Turkmenistan.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:299519-1 |title=Carex divulsa Stokes |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=7 January 2021 }}{{cite web |title=Carex divulsa grey sedge |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/128685/Carex-divulsa/Details |publisher=The Royal Horticultural Society |accessdate=7 January 2021 }} It has been introduced to northeast Argentina, the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania in the United States, Ontario in Canada, the North Island of New Zealand, and Tasmania and Victoria in Australia. It is the namesake of the Carex divulsa aggregate.{{cite journal |title=Taxonomy and new taxa of the Carex divulsa aggregate in Eurasia (Section Phaestoglochin, Cyperaceae) |year=2008 |last1=Molina |first1=ANA |last2=Acedo |first2=Carmen |last3=Llamas |first3=Félix |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=156 |issue=3 |pages=385–409 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00760.x |doi-access=free }}

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|Carex divulsa flowers (1).jpg|Inflorescences

|Carex divulsa inflorescens (57).jpg|Seedhead

|Carex divulsa - Leaning Pine Arboretum - DSC05828.JPG|Habit

|Carex divulsa Stokes (AM AK330059).jpg|In New Zealand

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