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.^[2] It has gone extinct in Germany.^[2] It propagates almost exclusively clonally, with some of its clonal colonies estimated to be 2,000 years old.^[3]

Carex curvula
Flowers
Botanical illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Cyperaceae
Genus:	Carex
Species:	C. curvula
Binomial name
Carex curvula All.[1]
Synonyms[2]
List Caricina curvula (All.) St.-Lag. Cryptoglochin curvulus (All.) Heuff. Kobresia curvula (All.) N.A.Ivanova

Subtaxa

The following subspecies are currently accepted:^[2]

• Carex curvula subsp. curvula
• Carex curvula subsp. rosae Gilomen