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short-scaled sedge, slender-foot sedge
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| Plants cespitose; culms 21–67 cm long, smooth or papillose (at 20×) at mid-length, the fragile papillae like tiny pegs projecting at right angles to the culm on its edges. |
2.4–5.9 mm wide. |
spikes 5–7, usually longer than wide, green and white (maturing light brown), relatively smooth in outline, usually gynaecandrous (or female); lowest spikes 8–15 mm long, usually with 11–23 perigynia; terminal spikes 9–12.7 mm long. |
3.3–3.9(4.4) mm long; thin-textured; beak 0.9–1.5(1.7) mm long, 30–38% of perigynium length; teeth to 0.3 mm long; stigmas 2. |
lenticular. |
white, occasionally straw-colored, with green midvein, usually with awn to 0.7 mm long; body shorter than the mature achene. |
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Shaded to partially shaded riparian zones and moist forests. 0–2700 m. BR, BW, Casc, CR, Est, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to MT. Native. In western Oregon, Carex leptopoda is the most common of the “identical triplets” (Carex bolanderi, C. infirminervia, and C. leptopoda). Its shorter perigynium beaks distinguish it from the other two species. Also see discussion under C. bolanderi. |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 211
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. 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. 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 |
| Carex deweyana, Carex deweyana ssp. leptopoda |
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BC, 
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WA
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WildflowerSearch
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