[Sedges: The Genus Carex West of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington]

Woolly Sedge

Carex pellita

Synonym: Carex lanuginosa

Woolly Sedge: Carex pellita (Synonym: Carex lanuginosa) - Woolly Sedge: Carex pellita (Synonym: Carex lanuginosa)

Woolly sedge as seen in vernally moist prairie at Lacamas Prairie NAP in southeastern Clark County, WA..........May 21, 2016.

Female spike of Woolly Sedge: Carex pellita (Synonym: Carex lanuginosa)

The photo above shows a close-up of the hairy perigynia within a spikelet of woolly sedge. Photographed along Laurel Road in Conboy Lake NWR...........August 11, 2008.

Paul Slichter