468 Carex paleacea Schreb. ex Wahlenb.

Syn.: C. maritima O. F. Müll., non Gunn.

This mainly sea-shore species belongs to a group of closely related and hybridizing taxa (C. paleacea group., Fl. Eur. 5/1980, p. 319 f.). It has an amphiatlantic distribution (Hultén, Amphi-atl., p. 284 and map 265).