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Plants densely cespitose, with blackish bases that usually cannot be wrenched from their rocky strongholds; culms 35–70 cm tall; plant bases blackish. |
sheath fronts green and veined throughout; except for a white-hyaline triangle to 6 mm long near the top, sometimes prolonged 1.5–6 mm above the base of the blade; blades (2.5)3–4(5) mm wide. |
sheath fronts coppery with reddish brown dots, conspicuously ladder-fibrillose; blades 2–4 mm wide, green or somewhat glaucous; plant bases reddish brown or blackish. |
3.5–8 cm × 10– 13 mm, elongated but with overlapping spikes, green to straw-colored; spikes ovate, gynaecandrous. |
lowest bract shorter than the inflorescence; lateral 2–4 spikes female, 2–4.5 cm × (4)5–6 mm; erect; terminal 1–2 spikes male. |
ovate to broadly ovate, 3.2–4.2 × 1.7–2.1 mm, green, white, or straw-colored, with 1–8 veins on each face; beak white or straw-colored at tip, winged and ciliate-serrulate; (1.5)1.8–2.4 mm from top of achene to tip of beak; stigmas 2. |
elliptical to ovate to obovate, 2.2–4 × 1.2–1.8 mm, pale brown with red spots and often a big black blotch near the tip, with 3–9 veins on each face; beak 0.1–0.3 mm; stigmas 2. |
lenticular; (1.3)1.5–1.8 × 0.9–1.2 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick. |
lenticular; about half as long as the perigynia. |
2.7–3.5 mm long; shorter and narrower than the perigynia, white hyaline or straw-colored; midrib green; straw-colored, or brown. |
much shorter than the perigynia; dark reddish brown to black; awnless. |
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Wet meadows and prairies, margins of marshes and road ditches. 100–1500 m. BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Sisk, WV. CA, WA; north to British Columbia, WY. Native. The neat, tidy appearance, overall green inflorescence, green leaf sheath fronts, and low elevation west-side range identify C. feta. Similar C. fracta is a coarser, sloppier plant with white-hyaline leaf sheath fronts and silvery inflorescences. The leaf sheath front of C. scoparia has such a narrow white-hyaline center that it can appear entirely green, but its usually curving inflorescence has a much finer texture with acuminate female scales and pointed perigynia, and its longer perigynia taper more gradually to the beak. See also discussions of C. longii and C. tribuloides, which have green sheath fronts. |
Cracks in rocks or among cobbles within the scour zones of large, fast-moving rivers, including small rocky islands; occasionally along irrigation canals. 0–1300 m. BW, Casc, Col, CR, ECas, Est, Lava, Sisk, WV. CA, WA. Native. Carex nudata forms dense tussocks with narrow, gracefully drooping leaves among rocks in fast-flowing rivers. It can be identified from a passing car. Rhizomatous C. interrupta may grow adjacent to C. nudata tussocks on stream banks in sandy or gravelly soils; its perigynia are smaller, and its lowest spike bases have perigynia widely spaced. |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 200
Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 217
Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting |
C. abrupta, C. agastachys, C. amplifolia, C. angustata, C. aperta, C. aquatilis, C. arcta, C. arenaria, C. atherodes, C. athrostachya, C. atrosquama, C. aurea, C. barbarae, C. bebbii, C. bolanderi, C. brainerdii, C. brevior, C. breweri, C. buchananii, C. buxbaumii, C. californica, C. canescens, C. capillaris, C. capitata, C. chordorrhiza, C. comans, C. comosa, C. concinna, C. concinnoides, C. cordillerana, C. crawfordii, C. cusickii, C. davyi, C. deflexa, C. densa, C. diandra, C. disperma, C. distans, C. douglasii, C. duriuscula, C. echinata, C. exsiccata, C. filifolia, C. fissuricola, C. fracta, C. geyeri, C. gynocrates, C. gynodynama, C. halliana, C. harfordii, C. hassei, C. haydeniana, C. hendersonii, C. heteroneura, C. hirsutella, C. hirta, C. hoodii, C. hystericina, C. idahoa, C. illota, C. infirminervia, C. inops, C. integra, C. interior, C. interrupta, C. jonesii, C. kelloggii, C. klamathensis, C. kobomugi, C. laeviculmis, C. lasiocarpa, C. leporina, C. leporinella, C. leptalea, C. leptopoda, C. limosa, C. livida, C. longii, C. luzulina, C. lyngbyei, C. macrocephala, C. macrochaeta, C. media, C. mendocinensis, C. mertensii, C. mesochorea, C. micropoda, C. microptera, C. multicaulis, C. nardina, C. nebrascensis, C. nervina, C. neurophora, C. nigricans, C. nudata, C. obnupta, C. pachycarpa, C. pachystachya, C. pansa, C. paysonis, C. pellita, C. pelocarpa, C. pendula, C. petasata, C. phaeocephala, C. pluriflora, C. praeceptorum, C. praegracilis, C. praticola, C. preslii, C. pumila, C. raynoldsii, C. retrorsa, C. rossii, C. saxatilis, C. scabriuscula, C. scirpoidea, C. scoparia, C. scopulorum, C. serpenticola, C. serratodens, C. sheldonii, C. simulata, C. spectabilis, C. stipata, C. straminiformis, C. subbracteata, C. subfusca, C. subnigricans, C. sychnocephala, C. tahoensis, C. tiogana, C. tribuloides, C. tumulicola, C. unilateralis, C. utriculata, C. vallicola, C. vernacula, C. vesicaria, C. viridula, C. vulpinoidea, C. whitneyi, C. zikae |
C. abrupta, C. agastachys, C. amplifolia, C. angustata, C. aperta, C. aquatilis, C. arcta, C. arenaria, C. atherodes, C. athrostachya, C. atrosquama, C. aurea, C. barbarae, C. bebbii, C. bolanderi, C. brainerdii, C. brevior, C. breweri, C. buchananii, C. buxbaumii, C. californica, C. canescens, C. capillaris, C. capitata, C. chordorrhiza, C. comans, C. comosa, C. concinna, C. concinnoides, C. cordillerana, C. crawfordii, C. cusickii, C. davyi, C. deflexa, C. densa, C. diandra, C. disperma, C. distans, C. douglasii, C. duriuscula, C. echinata, C. exsiccata, C. feta, C. filifolia, C. fissuricola, C. fracta, C. geyeri, C. gynocrates, C. gynodynama, C. halliana, C. harfordii, C. hassei, C. haydeniana, C. hendersonii, C. heteroneura, C. hirsutella, C. hirta, C. hoodii, C. hystericina, C. idahoa, C. illota, C. infirminervia, C. inops, C. integra, C. interior, C. interrupta, C. jonesii, C. kelloggii, C. klamathensis, C. kobomugi, C. laeviculmis, C. lasiocarpa, C. leporina, C. leporinella, C. leptalea, C. leptopoda, C. limosa, C. livida, C. longii, C. luzulina, C. lyngbyei, C. macrocephala, C. macrochaeta, C. media, C. mendocinensis, C. mertensii, C. mesochorea, C. micropoda, C. microptera, C. multicaulis, C. nardina, C. nebrascensis, C. nervina, C. neurophora, C. nigricans, C. obnupta, C. pachycarpa, C. pachystachya, C. pansa, C. paysonis, C. pellita, C. pelocarpa, C. pendula, C. petasata, C. phaeocephala, C. pluriflora, C. praeceptorum, C. praegracilis, C. praticola, C. preslii, C. pumila, C. raynoldsii, C. retrorsa, C. rossii, C. saxatilis, C. scabriuscula, C. scirpoidea, C. scoparia, C. scopulorum, C. serpenticola, C. serratodens, C. sheldonii, C. simulata, C. spectabilis, C. stipata, C. straminiformis, C. subbracteata, C. subfusca, C. subnigricans, C. sychnocephala, C. tahoensis, C. tiogana, C. tribuloides, C. tumulicola, C. unilateralis, C. utriculata, C. vallicola, C. vernacula, C. vesicaria, C. viridula, C. vulpinoidea, C. whitneyi, C. zikae |
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