Carex scirpoidea Michx.

Northern singlespike sedge (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Carex

Characteristics

Plants usually cespitose, short to long rhizomatous. Culms erect or lax, 5–35(–40) cm. Leaves: sheaths and bases from previous year’s leaves usually absent; ligules rounded or acute; blades glabrous adaxially. Inflorescences unispicate (very rarely with short, sessile lateral spike of same sex), mostly erect, ellipsoid; primary inflorescence bracts leaflike, rarely scalelike, shorter or longer than inflorescences. Scales red-brown to purple, ovate to lanceolate, to 3.5 × 1.5 mm, shorter than, equal to, or longer than perigynia, margins hyaline, narrow to broad, central midrib extending midway or to scale apex, apex acute to obtuse. Perigynia red-brown, ovate to lanceolate, to 4 × 1.6 mm, as wide as subtending scale, apex tapering or rounded, distal 3/4 hirsute with white hairs; beak 0.1 mm, orifice circular; rachilla absent. Achenes 1–2 × 0.6–1.2, tightly enveloped by perigynia, occupying full width and at least 3/4 length of perigynia. 2n = 62.
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Dioecious; stems 1–4 dm, surpassing the lvs, 1–few together from a rhizome; main lvs 1–3 mm wide; peduncle often with a minute bract ca 1 cm from the top; spike 1, erect, slender, 1–3 cm; pistillate scales deep brown, a little shorter and much narrower than the perigynia, thinly hairy; perigynia appressed-ascending, obovate-oblong, 2.5–3 mm, densely short-hairy, 2-keeled, otherwise virtually nerveless, subtriangular in cross-section, the minute beak 0.2 mm; achene trigonous; ± filling the perigynium; no rachilla; 2n=62–68. Dry soil, especially in calcareous regions; irregularly circumboreal, widespread in n. N. Amer. and s. in our range to the n. parts of N. Engl., N.Y., and Mich. Our plants are var. scirpoidea.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
Root system fibrous-root rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) 0.4
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Environment

Light 3-5
Soil humidity 5-5
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Soil acidity 2-5
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Cultivation

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

Carex scirpoidea unspecified picture

Distribution

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

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:324607-2
WFO ID wfo-0000351089
COL ID RBRS
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 762271
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Carex scirpoides Carex scirpoidea Carex scirpina Carex scirpoidea var. europaea Carex scirpoidea f. basigyna Carex scirpoidea subsp. scirpoidea Carex scirpoidea var. typica

Lower taxons

Carex scirpoidea var. convoluta Carex scirpoidea var. pseudoscirpoidea Carex scirpoidea var. scirpoidea Carex scirpoidea var. stenochlaena