Carex cryptolepis

Carex cryptolepis, known as northeastern sedge, is a North American species of sedge first described by Kenneth Mackenzie in 1914.^[1][2][3]

Carex cryptolepis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Cyperaceae
Genus:	Carex
Section:	Carex sect. Ceratocystis
Species:	C. cryptolepis
Binomial name
Carex cryptolepis Mack.

It grows in wetlands such as shorelines, swales, and fens of the Great Lakes region, northeastern United States, and southcentral/southeastern Canada.^[1][4] It may hybridize with Carex viridula.^[4]