Carex stricta is a species of sedge known by the common names upright sedge and tussock sedge.Coladonato, M. 1994. Carex stricta. In: Fire Effects Information System, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory. The plant grows in moist marshes, forests and alongside bodies of water.Carex stricta. Study of Northern Virginia Ecology. Fairfax County Public Schools. It grows up to tall and wide. When the leaves die, they build on top of or around the living plant, making a "tussock". Widely distributed in and east of the Great Plains, it is one of the most common wetland sedges in eastern North America.Carex stricta. Flora of North America.
Their seeds are carried by the wind. When seeds land, they are eaten by birds such as dark-eyed junco, northern cardinal, wild turkey, and ducks such as mallard and wood duck. The seeds are also eaten by squirrels and other mammals. The plant can also reproduce vegetatively via rhizomes, and often form colonies.
It is a larval host to the black dash, the dun skipper, the eyed brown,The Xerces Society (2016), Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects, Timber Press. and the mulberry wing.
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