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Sedges
Every rated Carex record is fire-resistant — 9 of 16 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 16 records carrying 41 evidence rows from 16 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Sedge Carex Fire-resistant Consensus 9 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Fire-resistant
8 species
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Sedge Fire-resistant Carex wakatipu -
Bastard grass Fire-resistant Carex corynoidea -
Bastard grass Fire-resistant Carex uncinata -
Bottlebrush sedge Fire-resistant Carex comosa -
Cutty grass Fire-resistant Carex geminata -
Fox sedge Fire-resistant Carex vulpinoidea - Junca Fire-resistant Carex pendula
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Retrorse sedge Fire-resistant Carex retrorsa
Awaiting evidence
7 species
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Cutty grass Awaiting evidence Carex coriacea - Sedge, Berkeley Awaiting evidence Carex tumulicola
- Sedge, Blue Awaiting evidence Carex flacca
- Sedge, Cherokee Awaiting evidence Carex cherokeensis
- Sedge, Meadow Awaiting evidence Carex perdentata
- Sedge, Texas Awaiting evidence Carex texensis
- Tall Sedge Awaiting evidence Carex appressa
About sedges
Corpus context. Carex is the directory's #22 largest of 550 genus groups: 16 records carrying 41 evidence rows from 16 cited sources, recorded as perennial, grass , hardy across USDA zones 3–9. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Carex: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.