Carex macrocephala

Carex macrocephala
	At the Pacific Spirit Regional Park
	Peter Pearsall/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Cyperaceae
Genus:	Carex
Species:	C. macrocephala
Binomial name
	Carex macrocephala; Willd. ex Spreng.
Synonyms
	List Carex anthericoides J.Presl & C.Presl; Carex macrocephala subsp. anthericoides (C.Presl) Hultén; Carex macrocephala var. bracteata Holm; Carex macrocephala f. bracteata (Holm) Kük.; Carex menziesiana Sm. ex Boott; Vignea macrocephala (Willd. ex Spreng.) Soják; ;

Carex macrocephala, the big-head sedge or largehead sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae.^[2] It is found on the beaches and dunes of the northern Pacific; Japan, Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin, the Kurils and Kamchatka in the Russian Far East, and Alaska, British Columbia, Washington state and Oregon in North America.^[1]^[2]

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