Carex tenuiflora

Wahlenberg

Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 24: 147. 1803.

Common names: Carex tênuiflore
Illustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 313. Mentioned on page 312, 314.

Plants loosely cespitose; rhizomes long, slender. Culms ± erect, weak, 10–50 cm. Leaves: sheaths pale brown abaxially, inner band hyaline, concave at summit; ligules as long as wide; blades pale green, flat or channeled, 5–15 cm × 0.5–2 mm. Inflorescences erect, ovoid or suborbicular, 0.6–1.2 cm × 4–9 mm; proximal bracts scalelike, sometimes bristlelike, shorter than inflorescences. Spikes 2–4, gynecandrous, closely approximate, containing 3–15 perigynia, short-oblong, 4–9 × 3–6 mm. Pistillate scales white-hyaline with green, 3-veined center, ovate, subequal to perigynia, apex obtuse. Perigynia appressed-ascending, gray-green, obscurely few-veined, obovate-elliptic, 3–3.5 × 1.5–1.75 mm, subcoriaceous; beak absent or nearly so. Achenes pale brown, oblong-elliptic, 1.5–2 × 1.25(–1.5) mm, glossy. 2n = 58.


Phenology: Fruiting May–Aug.
Habitat: Mires, especially sphagnum bogs, wet woodlands, lowlands
Elevation: 0–1400 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., Nfld. and Labr., N.W.T., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask., Yukon, Alaska, Colo., Maine, Mass., Mich., Minn., Mont., Ohio, N.Y., Vt., Wis., n Eurasia.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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Heikki Toivonen +
Wahlenberg +
Carex tênuiflore +
Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, N.B. +, Nfld. and Labr. +, N.W.T. +, Ont. +, P.E.I. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Yukon +, Alaska +, Colo. +, Maine +, Mass. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, Mont. +, Ohio +, N.Y. +, Vt. +, Wis. +  and n Eurasia. +
0–1400 m +
Mires, especially sphagnum bogs, wet woodlands, lowlands +
Fruiting May–Aug. +
Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. +
Illustrated +
Carex tenuiflora +
Carex sect. Glareosae +
species +