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Plants cespitose, 30–100 cm tall. |
sheaths glabrous, rarely very short-pubescent; lower ones ladder-fibrillose; blades (2)2.2–4.5(6) mm, yellow-green; flat or M-shaped in cross section; the tips not curled. |
sheath fronts cross-corrugated, white-hyaline with brown spots; blades approximately 5 mm wide, generally longer than the flowering culms. |
lowest bract erect or nearly so; longer than the inflorescence; lateral 1–3 spikes female; erect or ascending; well separated from the 1–3 terminal male spikes. |
elongate; (3)7–10 cm × 15 mm; somewhat interrupted; bracts hair-like, usually conspicuous; spikes many; short, androgynous; lowest node usually with a short branch with at least 1 side spike; thus the lowest node often seeming to produce 2 spikes. |
broadly ovoid, abruptly contracted to the beak, 2.4–5.2 × 1.7–2.8 mm, densely pubescent, ascending; beak (0.6)0.8–1.6 mm long; teeth 0.4–0.8 mm long; straight; stigmas 3. |
elliptic to ovate, 2–3.2 × 1.3– 1.8 mm; dull grayish brown, with 0–3 dorsal veins; veinless ventrally; base obtuse or rounded, depending on the amount of pithy tissue within; stigmas 2. |
trigonous. |
lenticular. |
glabrous or with scabrous margin apically; acute to awned. |
brown; short-awned. |
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Marshes, stream banks, ditches, pond margins, and wet meadows, often in places that are dry at the surface in summer, often in habitats with a history of disturbance. 0–2300 m. BR, BW, Casc, Col, ECas, Lava, Owy, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to AK, east to Newfoundland, south to Mexico. Native. Carex pellita is a common, slender, rhizomatous wetland sedge, sometimes forming dense stands but often mixing inconspicuously with other vegetation. Its densely hairy perigynia taper abruptly to short beaks. It often fails to flower; sterile plants can be identified by the slender, aphyllopodic, glabrous, shiny, varnished-looking, red-brown shoot bases with ladder-fibrillose leaf sheath fronts. Compare to C. lasiocarpa. |
Moist to wet meadows, marshes and ditches. 0–1300 m. BW, Casc, Col, ECas, Owy, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, WA; throughout most of Canada and US, south to Mexico; Eurasia, New Zealand. Native. Carex vulpinoidea is a cespitose sedge with cross-corrugated leaf sheaths and long, interrupted inflorescences with conspicuous though almost hair-thin bracts. Carex densa, its equivalent west of the Cascades, has a shorter, uninterrupted inflorescence with less conspicuous bracts and yellower perigynia that average larger, with more dorsal and ventral veins. Its leaves are shorter than the flowering culms. Carex vulpinoidea is native in eastern Oregon and along the Columbia, but southwestern Oregon records are recent introductions. |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 219
Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 233
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. 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. subnigricans, C. sychnocephala, C. tahoensis, C. tiogana, C. tribuloides, C. tumulicola, C. unilateralis, C. utriculata, C. vallicola, C. vernacula, C. vesicaria, C. viridula, C. whitneyi, C. zikae |
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