Common Name: Bladder Sedge, Shining Bur Sedge

Scientific Name: Carex intumescens

Family: Cyperaceae ( Sedge Family)

Origins: North America (native)

Flowering Time: May to July

Habitat: Swamps and marshes

Range: Found throughout most of eastern North Amercia, not including the arctic

Sources:

Bladder Sedge (Carex intumescens) – Ontario Grasses, Sedges, Rushes. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://ontariograsses.com/main/species.php?id=3026

Chambers, Brenda, Karen Legasy, Cathy V. Bentley, Shayna LaBelle-Beadman, and Emma Thurley. Forest Plants of Central Ontario. Edmonton, Alta., Canada: Lone Pine, 1996. Print.