Carex viridula subsp. brachyrrhyncha
little green sedge, long-stalk yellow sedge
2–4.5 cm.
of flowering stems thickened, recurved, shorter to equaling culms, to 3 cm × 1.6–3.5 mm ligules of distal cauline leaves usually obsolete.
proximal pistillate spikes 1–3, contiguous or slightly separate, globose or elliptic, 4–5.5 mm wide;
terminal staminate spikes short- or long-pedunculate, 5.1–6.1 × 1.6–2.1 mm.
dark green to yellowish green, 2.3–2.8 × 1.3–1.5 mm, apex abruptly narrowed into a scabrous or smooth, reflexed beak;
beak 0.4–2.1 mm, forming an angle of 5–28° with body.
1.2–1.4 × 0.9–1 mm.
Carex viridula subsp. brachyrrhyncha
North America; Europe
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Perigynia (2.7–)3.2–4.5 mm; culms to 85 cm; peduncle of staminate spike to 25 mm; North America and Europe. | C. viridula var. elatior |
1. Perigynia 2.3–2.8 mm; culms to 5 cm; peduncle of staminate staminate spike to 4 mm; North America. | C. viridula var. saxilittoralis |
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