Carex nudata W.Boott

Naked sedge (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Carex

Characteristics

Plants cespitose, flowering from first-year shoots. Culms acutely angled, 35–70 cm, glabrous. Leaves: basal sheaths red-brown; sheaths of proximal leaves bladeless, scabrous, fronts with red-brown spots, prominently ladder-fibrillose, apex red-brown, U-shaped; blades hypostomic, 2–4 mm wide, papillose abaxially. Inflorescences: proximal bract shorter than inflorescence, 1–2 mm wide. Spikes erect; staminate 1–2; pistillate 2–4; proximal pistillate spike 2–4.5 cm × 5–6 mm, base cuneate. Pistillate scales dark red-brown to black, shorter than perigynia, apex obtuse, awnless. Perigynia ascending, pale brown with red-brown spots on apical 1/2, often blackish apically, 5–9-veined on each face, somewhat flattened, loosely enclosing achenes, thin-walled, ovoid or ellipsoid, 2.2–4 × 1.2–1.8 mm, leathery, dull, apex rounded or obtuse, papillose; beak red-brown, 0.1–0.3 mm. Achenes not constricted, dull. 2n = 70, 72.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.23 - 0.6
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Environment

Light 4-9
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Soil acidity 2-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-10

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Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions.
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Distribution

Carex nudata world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30163570-2
WFO ID wfo-0000349368
COL ID 69CMD
BDTFX ID -
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Carex nudata f. sessiliflora Carex hallii Carex nudata Carex suborbiculata Carex acutina Carex bishallii Carex tenacissima Carex pulchella Carex aperta var. angustifolia Carex nudata var. angustifolia Carex nudata var. anomala Carex nudata var. versuta Carex nudata f. firmior Carex nudata subsp. versuta