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fox sedge
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slender woolly sedge, woollyfruit sedge
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Plants rhizomatous, 40–120 cm tall, aphyllopodic; plant bases reddish brown, shiny. |
sheath fronts cross-corrugated, white-hyaline with brown spots; blades approximately 5 mm wide, generally longer than the flowering culms. |
sheaths usually ladder-fibrillose; blades 0.2–2(2.2) mm wide as folded, glaucous, consisting of little more than the midrib; involute to channeled at the base and narrowly triangular near the tip; the tips of leaves on vegetative shoots curled. |
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. |
lowest bract diverging from the culm at about 45–90°; lateral 1–3 spikes female; erect or ascending, 1–4.5 cm long; remote; terminal 1–3 spikes male, 1.5–6 cm long; well separated from the female spikes. |
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. |
broadly ovoid, abruptly contracted to the beak, 3–4.3 × 1.5–2.2 mm, densely pubescent; beak 0.5–1.1 mm long; teeth 0.2–0.7 mm long; straight; stigmas 3. |
lenticular. |
trigonous. |
brown; short-awned. |
glabrous, ciliate or with margin scabrous apically; apex acute to awned. |
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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. |
Fens, bogs, lake shores, and wet meadows, sometimes forming floating mats, in deep, organic, acidic soils with low to moderate nutrient levels. 1200–1700 m. BW, Casc, ECas. CA, ID, WA; north to AK, east to Newfoundland, VA; Eurasia. Native. Carex lasiocarpa is a slender bog sedge. Similar C. pellita grows in shallower water and has wider, flatter leaves that do not curl at the tip and more upright lowest inflorescence bracts. The two may grow together in the same bog. |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 233
Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 210
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. 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. 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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Carex lasiocarpa var. americana |
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