Carex stylosa C.A.Mey.

Variegated sedge (en), Carex à long style (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Cyperaceae > Carex

Characteristics

Plants cespitose. Culms 15–50 cm, distally slightly scabrous. Leaves 2–4 mm wide. Inflorescences: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescences; spikes separate, short-oblong or elongate, 7–20 × 4.5–8 mm; proximal spikes often distant, spreading or pendent, very long-pendunculate; distal spikes erect, pedunculate; lateral (1–)2–3(–4) spikes pistillate, of similar length; terminal spike staminate or with perigynia, neither wholly gynecandrous or androgynous. Pistillate scales brown with hyaline margins, lanceolate, shorter and narrower than perigynia, midvein lighter colored than body, often raised, prominent. Perigynia spreading, green or golden, becoming brown, veinless, elliptic, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–1.75 mm, apex beakless or abruptly beaked, papillose; beak to 0.2–0.3 mm, truncate, smooth. Achenes nearly filling body of perigynia. 2n = 52.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.5
Root system rhizome
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Distribution

Carex stylosa world distribution map, present in Canada, Norway, and United States of America

Conservation status

Carex stylosa threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:302431-1
WFO ID wfo-0000351669
COL ID RC2Y
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Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Carex spreta Carex beringiana Carex rigida Carex stylosa Carex stylosa var. nigritella Carex cespitosa var. tristigmatica Carex nigritella Carex stylosa var. stylosa