Carex alba, called the small white sedge, white-flowered sedge or just white sedge (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of sedge in the family Cyperaceae.[1] It is typically found in temperate forests of Eurasia, from the Pyrenees to the Russian Far East.[2] It is the main host plant for the woodland brown butterfly, Lopinga achine.[3]
Carex alba is a species of sedge, typically growing in thick clumps between in height. Stems are slender, trigonous, smooth; with sheaths that are leafless at the base. Leaves are shorter than the stem, and flat-bladed. Bracts are greenish-brown and sheathlike. Flowers take the form of terminal spikes, and are white in colour. Nutlets are dark brown, obovate-elliptic, trigonous. Flowers and fruits in June to July.[4]
Carex alba favours dry, wooded areas,[5] temperate pine forests and slopes.[6]