Botany

Carex curvula

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. It has gone extinct in Germany. It propagates almost exclusively clonally, with some of its clonal colonies estimated to be 2,000 years old.

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• ▸Carludovica palmata
• ▸History of U.S. foreign policy, 1897–1913
• ▸Bertil Nordenstam

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