Carex lenticularis

Lakeshore sedge

Family: Cyperaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Lakeshore sedge is a California native perennial sedge found in moist habitats across various mountain and coastal bioregions. Flowering from spring to summer, this plant produces inconspicuous green spikelets with narrow, delicate flowers clustered in terminal and lateral arrangements. Growing in dense, tufted clumps with stems 10 to 40 centimeters tall, it forms compact, grass-like clusters with slender, pale green stems. Its leaves are narrow, typically 1 to 3.5 millimeters wide, with fine, blade-like textures emerging from the plant's base. The fruit is a small, early-deciduous perigynia with a short beak, typically green or white with occasional purple dots.

California counties: El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Plumas, Tulare, Fresno, Mariposa, Modoc, Tuolumne, Siskiyou, Madera, Humboldt, Tehama, Shasta, Amador, Placer, Yuba, Sierra

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.