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fragile-sheath sedge
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| Plants cespitose, 60–115 cm tall. |
sheath fronts white-hyaline for at least 1 cm from the top, often throughout, extending 3–9 mm above base of blade; blades 4–7 mm wide. |
3.5–8 cm × 10–16 mm, elongated; silvery to green or straw-colored; spikes elliptical, overlapping, gynaecandrous. |
broadly lanceolate to ovate, 2.9–4(4.8) × 1–1.7 mm, green to straw-colored, with 5–11 veins on each face; beak white or straw-colored at tip, brown, usually unwinged; parallel-sided; and more or less entire for the distal 0.1–0.5 mm, 1.3–2(2.8) mm from top of achene to tip of beak; stigmas 2. |
lenticular, 1.3–1.6 × 0.8–1.2 mm; (0.3)0.4–0.5 mm thick. |
(2.8)3.6–4.5 mm long; shorter or longer and narrower than the perigynia, white hyaline or straw-colored; midrib green; straw-colored, or brown. |
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Seasonally damp places, open forests, roadsides, often in partial shade, from foothills to timberline. 200–2100 m. Casc, ECas, Sisk. CA, WA. Native. Carex fracta is a coarse montane sedge with tall, leaning shoots and whitish or silvery inflorescences. Its loose leaf sheaths are prolonged at the mouth. Compare to C. feta. |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 201
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. feta, C. filifolia, C. fissuricola, 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 |
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