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eggbract sedge, hare sedge, oval broom sedge, oval sedge
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dark mountain sedge, nearlyblack sedge
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| Plants cespitose, (24)35–85 cm tall at flowering; vegetative shoots elongating late in the season and becoming stolons (developing shoots and roots at the nodes), sprawling over shorter vegetation. |
Plants rhizomatous, the rhizomes 1 mm thick; culms 5–20 cm tall. |
(1.5)2– 3.5(4) mm wide. |
sheath fronts uniformly pale brown or colorless; blades 0.4–1 mm wide; round to semicircular in cross section. |
1.5–4 cm × 10–15 mm; erect to flexuous, not head-like; the lower spikes somewhat separated; spikes gynaecandrous. |
spike solitary, androgynous, 0.7–2 cm × 4–6 mm, lacking an inflorescence bract. |
3.4–4.7(5.2) × 1.3–2.1 mm; straw-colored or light brown, with 3–9 conspicuous dorsal veins and 2–5 conspicuous ventral veins; wings 0.2–0.5 mm wide; beak brown; parallel-sided; entire for the distal 0.3–0.5 mm (occasionally winged almost to the tip); (1.2)1.5–2 mm from achene top to beak tip; stigmas 2. |
elliptic, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5 mm, ascending, brown above; darker brown through the middle; and pale below; veinless, with rachilla shorter than the achene; stigmas 3. |
lenticular, 1.1–1.8 × 0.9–1.2 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick. |
trigonous; much smaller than the perigynium. |
3.4–5 mm long; longer or shorter; wider or narrower than the perigynia; straw-colored, brown or green; margins not white-hyaline; the tip often white-hyaline; acute to acuminate. |
about as wide as the perigynia but shorter, 1-veined; yellowish brown; apex obtuse to acute; flat, not awned. |
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Moist meadows and wet prairies at low elevations. 50–1400 m. CR, Sisk, WV. CA, NV, WA; north to British Columbia, WI to Prince Edward Island south to KY and NC; Australia, Eurasia, New Zealand. Native. Carex leporina is a loosely tufted sedge with a light brown, somewhat elongate inflorescence. The stolons form late in the season and are rarely collected. Similar C. praticola has female scales with white margins. Its perigynia are veinless or weakly veined on the ventral surface, have longer beaks that are brown, parallel-sided, and wingless for the distal 0.4–1 mm and have the very tip narrowly white-edged. |
Moist, rocky, alpine to subalpine slopes and meadows. 2300–2800 m. BR, BW. CA, ID, NV; east to WY. Native. Carex subnigricans is a short, turf-forming, high elevation, wetland species with narrow, involute leaves. Its single, oval spikes resemble those of young C. nigricans, which has wider, flat leaves. Carex breweri has broader heads and veined perigynia and lives in drier habitats. |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 210
Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 229
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. 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. 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. 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 ovalis, Carex tracyi |
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