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Navajo Sedge (Carex specuicola)

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Photo by Blake Wellard; Zach Coury; Zach Coury; Zach Coury; Daniela Roth; Daniela Roth
Blake Wellard 2024; Blake Wellard 2024; Zach Coury 2024; Zach Coury 2024; Photo Courtesy of Navajo Natural Heritage Program; Utah Division of Wildlife Resources; Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA; Photo Courtesy of Navajo Natural Heritage Program; Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA; Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA

Navajo Sedge

Navajo Sedge (Carex specuicola)

Photo by Blake Wellard; Zach Coury; Zach Coury; Zach Coury; Daniela Roth; Daniela Roth
Blake Wellard 2024; Blake Wellard 2024; Zach Coury 2024; Zach Coury 2024; Photo Courtesy of Navajo Natural Heritage Program; Utah Division of Wildlife Resources; Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA; Photo Courtesy of Navajo Natural Heritage Program; Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA; Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA

Carex specuicola

NatureServe conservation status

Global (G-rank): G2G3
State (S-rank): S1

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Phenology

Flowers in late June and July

Species range

Found along the San Juan River of San Juan County, Utah. Also found in Apache, Coconino and Navajo Counties, Arizona

Threats or limiting factors

Carex specuicola relies heavily on local hydrology systems that create the lush, vertical seeps and springs known as hanging gardens where it grows.ongoing drought and development that limits water-flow to populations along with grazing are threats to this species.

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Multicellular organisms that are autotrophic or make complex carbohydrates from basic constituents. Most use photosynthesis.

Flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary

Multicellular organisms that develop from the fertilization of an egg by a sperm. Heterotrophic - obtain food by ingestion.

Have skulls and backbones.

Cold blooded, lay eggs on land

Have feathers and lay eggs

Invertebrates with an exoskeleton, jointed appendages, and segmented bodies

Animals having 3 pair of legs, 3 body sections, generally 1 or 2 pair of wings, 1 pair of antennae.

Soft bodied animals with an internal or external shell and a toothed tongue or radula. Have a mantle that lines and secretes the shell and a muscular foot that allows for movement.

Two hinged lateral shells and a wedged shaped "foot". Bivalves lack tentacles and a head.


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