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Carex middendorffii

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Carex middendorffii. See image source here.

#584 They called me Carex middendorffii. I pay homage to the male botanist Alexander von Middendorff. They first catalogued me in 1868.

Native to Japan, Kamchatka, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Primorye, and Sakhalin.

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Carex mertensii

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Carex mertensii. See image source here.

#552 They called me Carex mertensii. I pay homage to the male botanist Franz Carl Mertens. They first catalogued me in 1833.

Native to Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, California, Idaho, Japan, Kuril Is., Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

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Potamogeton distinctus

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Potamogeton distinctus. See image source here.

#534 They called me Potamogeton distinctus, also known as Potamogeton franchetii. I pay homage to the male botanist Adrien René Franchet. They first catalogued me in 1904.

Native to Amur, East Himalaya, Japan, Jawa, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kuril Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Manchuria, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Philippines, Primorye, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and West Himalaya.