''Carex curvula'', the Alpine sedge (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''

Carex ''Carex'' is a vast genus of over 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family (biology), family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books). Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of ge ...

'', native to the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Carpathians, and the mountains of the Balkans. It has gone extinct in Germany. It propagates almost exclusively clonally, with some of its

clonal colonies A clonal colony or genet is a group of genetically identical individuals, such as plants, fungi, or bacteria, that have grown in a given location, all originating vegetatively, not sexually, from a single ancestor. In plants, an individual in ...

estimated to be 2,000 years old.

Subtaxa

The following subspecies are currently accepted: *''Carex curvula'' subsp. ''curvula'' *''Carex curvula'' subsp. ''rosae'' Gilomen

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q122810 curvula Flora of Europe Plants described in 1785