Latin name: Carex dioica L. Family:  Cyperaceae
English name: Northern Bog sedge
Own language name: Laîche dioïque
Description: perennial plant, stems 5-25 cm tall, spikes 8-16 mm long.  Each stem has a single flower-spike wich is either all male or all female.  So at fruiting time either all glumes have fruits or none will. Leaves and stems are smooth .

Distribution: 
 In Belgium :
campinien, flandrien, ardennais (haute Ardenne, Haute-Fagnes) and lorrain districts.  No more seen recently, perhaps disapered.
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Habitat: peaty marshs
 
 

Report about the reasons of the risk:  

Categoria IUCN:  1, CR  -  threat of extinction 
Possible solutions:  reintroduction in its habitat.
 
Culinary and/or medicinal properties:  
 
 

 

 Details of the male flower
Details of the female flower