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alpine nerved sedge, veined sedge
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large-awn sedge, long-awn sedge
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Plants loosely cespitose; young roots with white, cream-colored, or yellowish felty hairiness; culms 20–50(70) cm long. |
35–60 cm tall, lacking persistent basal sheaths of previous years. |
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sheaths of lower leaves herbaceous and veined, not splitting; longer than their reduced blades; upper sheaths hyaline, faintly veined, usually cross-corrugated, with the mouth convex; blades 5 mm wide, green, arising at different heights so that the sheaths are mostly visible. |
2–5 mm wide; more or less white papillate (at 15×) on the lower surface. |
1–2.5 cm × 6–15 mm; dense and headlike; spikes androgynous or some female. |
spikes 3–5; lateral spikes female, 1–3 cm × 6–8 mm; lower spikes often dangling on moderately long peduncles but upper ones short-pedunculate to sessile; terminal spike male, 1.2– 3.2 cm × 3–8 mm. |
lance-triangular; to 2.9–3.8 × 1–1.5 mm; widest near the base, brown, strongly veined, with 9–11 veins on the dorsal surface, 5–7 on the ventral surface; base pithy and somewhat swollen; beak to 2 mm long, gradually tapered; stigmas 2. |
narrowly elliptic, 3.8–6.8 × 1.7–2.3 mm, light green or sometimes marked with dark purple, 10–15-veined; beak 0.1–0.3 mm long; stigmas 3. |
lenticular. |
trigonous and filling about 60% of the perigynium body. |
shorter than or about equal to the perigynia, brown. |
narrower and longer than the perigynia (though the scale body itself may be shorter), dark brown or black, often with a lighter midrib, awned; awns 1–3 mm long in Oregon (to 12 mm long in more northern sites). |
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Wet meadows, seeps, and streamsides. 1100–2500 m. BW, Casc, Sisk. CA, ID, WA; northeast to MT. Native. Carex neurophora is a relatively tall, cespitose “ball-headed” sedge. Its leaf sheath fronts are usually cross-corrugated. Like C. jonesii, it has veined perigynia with tapered tips and swollen, pithy bases. Carex jonesii has the leaves all clustered at the base so that the usually smooth leaf sheath fronts are hard to see. In southwestern Oregon, compare to C. nervina. |
Spray zones of waterfalls or on seepy, north-facing cliffs. 100–900 m. Casc, CR. WA; north to AK; Asia. Native. Carex macrochaeta forms dense clumps of leaves that hang down from its cliff-side perch. Carex scirpoidea var. stenochlaena produces similar tufts in similar habitats, but has only one spike per culm. Oregon’s C. macrochaeta populations are small remnants left behind as this species retreated north with the glaciers. |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 216
Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 213
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. 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. 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. 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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