- Carex, genus Carex - large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges
--1 is a kind of monocot genus, liliopsid genus
--1 is a member of Cyperaceae, family Cyperaceae, sedge family
--1 has members:sand sedge, sand reed, Carex arenaria; cypress sedge, Carex pseudocyperus