Carex concinnoides

Mackenzie

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33: 440. 1906.

Common names: Northwest sedge
IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 548. Mentioned on page 545, 546, 547.

Plants loosely cespitose, long-rhizomatous. Culms 14–37 cm. Leaves: basal sheaths dark reddish brown; blades mostly basal, pale green, shorter than culms, thick, 1.7–4.5 mm wide. Inflorescences: peduncles of proximal spikes short; peduncles of terminal staminate spikes 1.5–3(–10) mm; proximal bracts short-sheathing; pistillate spikes 1–3, emerging from cauline nodes, aggregated, ascending, ovoid to short-cylindric; staminate spikes 8–22 × 1.8–3.1 mm. Scales: pistillate scales dark reddish brown, ovate to obovate, apex obtuse to acute, minutely ciliate; staminate scales dark reddish to purplish brown, ovate to obovate, margins white, apex acute, scarious. Anthers 1.9–3.1 mm. Perigynia ellipsoid to obovoid, 2.5–3 × 1.4–1.7 mm, base tapering, pubescent with straight white hairs; beak 0.5 mm. Stigmas 4, erect or convolute, thick, weakly papillose. Achenes obovoid, 1.9–2.5 × 1.3–1.6 mm.


Phenology: Fruiting spring–summer (late Apr–late Jul).
Habitat: Moist to dry, open pine, spruce, Douglas-fir, and aspen woods, often on slopes
Elevation: 60–2100 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Calif., Idaho, Mont., Oreg., Wash.

Discussion

Carex cocinnoides is the only North American sedge with four stigmas per pistil. It is most similar to C. richardsonii; differs in its more closely aggregated, short-pedunculate pistillate spikes with very short-sheathing bracts. These close relatives are sympatric only at the northern and eastern edge of the range of C. concinnoides.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Carex concinnoides"
William J. Crins +
Mackenzie +
Northwest sedge +
Alta. +, B.C. +, Calif. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Oreg. +  and Wash. +
60–2100 m +
Moist to dry, open pine, spruce, Douglas-fir, and aspen woods, often on slopes +
Fruiting spring–summer (late Apr–late Jul). +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Carex sect. Digitatae +
Carex concinnoides +
Carex sect. Clandestinae +
species +