Carex interior L.H.Bailey

Inland sedge (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Carex

Characteristics

Culms 10–95 cm. Leaves 3–5 per culm; sheaths tight, inner band hyaline, 1.8–13 cm, apex concave, glabrous; ligule of distalmost leaf obtuse to rounded, 0.6–2.2 mm; blades plicate, 6–31 cm × 0.6–2.4(–2.7) mm, widest leaf 1–2.4(–2.7) mm wide. Inflorescences 0.8–3.7 cm; spikes 2–5(–7); lateral spikes pistillate often with few staminate flowers proximally, 3–9.5 mm, sessile, staminate portion 3-flowered, to 2.2 mm, pistillate portion 3–18-flowered, 2.3–8 mm; basal 2 spikes 2.1–11 mm apart; terminal spike 5.2–20 mm, gynecandrous, staminate portion 3–10-flowered, 2.2–14.5 × 0.7–1.4 mm, pistillate portion 4–16-flowered, 3–7 × 4–5.8 mm. Pistillate scales ovate, 1.2–2.1(–2.4) × 1–1.6 mm, apex obtuse. Staminate scales ovate, 1.4–2.9 × 1–1.3 mm, base clavate, apex obtuse to acute. Anthers 0.6–1.4 mm. Perigynia spreading to reflexed, castaneous to dark brown, 4–12-veined abaxially, sometimes faintly, 0(–6)-veined adaxially over achene, ovate, often convexly tapered from widest point to beak, forming a “shoulder,” 1.95–3(–3.3) × 1.1–1.8 mm, 1.4–2(–2.2) times as long as wide; beak 0.4–0.95 mm, 0.18–0.44 length of body, setulose-serrulate, teeth 0.15–0.4 mm. Achenes ovate, 1.2–1.8 × 0.95–1.5 mm.
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Stems tufted, aphyllopodic, 2–9 dm, smooth; lvs 3–5 per stem, all in the basal third, shorter than to about equaling the stems, plicate, 1–2.5 mm wide; spikes (2)3–6, sessile, contiguous or ± remote, small and few-fld, the terminal one with a conspicuous, slender, staminate base, some of the lateral ones often wholly pistillate; bracts small and inconspicuous; anthers 0.6–1.4 mm; perigynia mostly 5–15, crowded, widely spreading or the lower reflexed, green or tan, planoconvex, coriaceous and shining, spongy-thickened at base, 4–12-nerved dorsally, nerveless or occasionally few-nerved ventrally, ovate or triangular-ovate, 2.2–3.2 × 1.1–1.8 mm, 1.4–2 times as long as wide, tending to be ± convexly tapered from the widest point to the beak, conspicuously serrulate-margined distally and on the beak, this short, broad, very shallowly bidentate, 0.5–1 mm, a fourth to half as long as the body; achene lenticular; 2n=54. Swamps, bogs, and other wet places; Nf. and Lab. to s. Yukon and Alas., s. to Va., Mo., and Mex.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
Root system fibrous-root
Rooting depth (meter) 0.2
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 5-6
Soil humidity 7-9
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Soil acidity 4-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

Usage

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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Images

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Distribution

Carex interior world distribution map, present in Canada, Colombia, France, Micronesia (Federated States of), Malaysia, and United States of America

Conservation status

Carex interior threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:46396-2
WFO ID wfo-0000347736
COL ID 69BC4
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 761914
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Carex interior Vignea scirpoides Carex interior f. keweenawensis Carex interior f. interior Carex scirpoides Carex interior subsp. charlestonensis Carex interior var. keweenawensis Carex stellulata var. scirpoides Carex stellulata var. scirpoides