Carex plantagineaLam.

plantainleaf sedge

WFO wfo-0000350113 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Carex plantaginea, photographed by Clay Gibbons
fig. a Clay Gibbons, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205029548
Carex plantaginea, photographed by Quinten Wiegersma
fig. b Quinten Wiegersma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203747417
Carex plantaginea, photographed by Chase Mathey
fig. c Chase Mathey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200881168
Carex plantaginea, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. d Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197625507
Carex plantaginea, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. e Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196370606
Carex plantaginea, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. f Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196084247
Carex plantaginea, photographed by naturalist charlie
fig. g naturalist charlie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195709572
Carex plantaginea, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. h Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199340325

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 288 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 288 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anithista latifolia (Moench) Raf.
  • Carex latifolia Moench
  • Deweya plantaginea (Lam.) Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.