Carex parallela(Laest.) Sommerf.

parallel sedge

WFO wfo-0000349808 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Carex parallela, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. a Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-05 / obs. 155389563
Carex parallela, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. b Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155388945
Carex parallela, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. c Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155388988

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Carex parallela is native: Altay, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, West Siberia, Yakutiya, East European Russia, Finland, North European Russia, Norway, Svalbard, Sweden, Greenland AltayIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaWest SiberiaYakutiyaEast European RussiaFinlandNorth European RussiaNorwaySvalbardSwedenGreenland
Native distribution of Carex parallela, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
East European Russia RUE EUROPE
Finland FIN
North European Russia RUN
Norway NOR
Svalbard SVA
Sweden SWE
Greenland GNL NORTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 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.

  • Carex davalliana var. leiocarpa Bunge
  • Carex davalliana var. pallida Christ ex Scheutz
  • Carex dioica subsp. parallela (Laest.) C.Hartm.
  • Carex dioica var. parallela Laest.
  • Carex dioica var. redowskiana (C.A.Mey.) Ostenf.
  • Carex dioica var. subtriangularis Boeckeler
  • Carex parallela f. androgyna O.Lang
  • Carex parallela var. pauciflora O.Lang
  • Carex parallela var. subcaespitosa O.Lang
  • Carex redowskiana C.A.Mey.
  • Vignea parallela (Laest.) Soják
  • Vignea redowskiana (C.A.Mey.) Soják

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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