Korean Carex Interactive Key (Ver.1.3)
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This study focused on 117 of the 220 Carex taxa native to Korea (NLSK, 2024 and Son et al., 2025).
The selection criterion was the availability of specimens at the herbaria of Sungshin Women's University (SWU) and the Korea National Arboretum (KH) for direct observation.
Minkyung Jung, Yanghoon Cho, and Sangtae Kim
Dept. of Biotechnology Sungshin Women's Univ., Seoul, Rep. of Korea
A poster presented at the XX International Botanical Congress, Madrid (2024)
A complete list of Korean Carex (Korea National Arboretum (2020)
(Our interactive key does not accept some scientific names in this list.)
Reference:
NLSK 2024. National List of Species of Korea. Facilitated by National Institute of Biological Resources. https://kbr.go.kr/ (accessed 30 Oct 2025).
Son, D.C., Jang, J.E., Park, B.K., Lee, K.-H., Kang, E.S., Chang, K.S., Jung, S.-Y., Gil, H.-Y., Kim, S.-J., & Choi, K. 2025. An updated checklist of the vascular flora native to Korea. J. Asia-Pac. Biodivers. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2025.04.004.