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fox sedge
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hairy sedge
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| Plants cespitose, 30–100 cm tall. |
Plants rhizomatous, (10)20–90 cm tall. |
sheath fronts cross-corrugated, white-hyaline with brown spots; blades approximately 5 mm wide, generally longer than the flowering culms. |
2.5–8 mm wide; hairy. |
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. |
lateral (1)2–3 spikes female; erect or ascending; terminal 1–3 spikes male. |
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. |
lanceolate, 4.8–7.8 × 1.7–2.5 mm; more or less densely pubescent with spreading hairs, with 12–20 veins; beak 1.5–2.7 mm long; teeth 0.8–1.7 mm long, spreading; style persistent; stigmas 3. |
lenticular. |
trigonous. |
brown; short-awned. |
usually sparsely pubescent (occasionally glabrous), with scabrous awns. |
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with short, scabrous awns (sometimes lacking on lowest scales), with sparse to dense, spreading, white hairs. |
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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. |
Disturbed sandy soils, dry to wet meadows, stream banks, roadsides, and open forests. 0–50 m. WV. Northeastern North America; Eurasia. Exotic. This introduced species resembles C. sheldonii, which is native east of the Cascades. Carex sheldonii has glabrous, awned female scales, and awnless male scales that are glabrous or have sparse, more or less appressed hairs. Common C. pellita has glabrous leaves and smaller, hairy perigynia with shorter teeth. Carex hirta was found in Portland in 1916 and not seen in Oregon again until 2010. |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 233
Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 205
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. 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. 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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