Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Carex arenaria L.


CYPERACEAE Family selection - Sedge family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Carex arenaria L. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl. 2: 973. 1753 [1 May 1753]
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Sand sedge
en English name: German sarsaparilla
English name: German-sarsaparilla
Spanish name: zarzaparilla de Alemania
German name: Sand-Segge

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
 

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:


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Carex arenaria
Carex arenaria
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Carex arenaria
Carex arenaria
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Carex arenaria
Carex arenaria
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Carex arenaria
Carex arenaria
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Carex arenaria
Carex arenaria
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Carex arenaria
Carex arenaria
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 363.

Carex arenaria
Carex arenaria
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Carex arenaria
Carex arenaria
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (DE, MD, NC, OR, VA)

Distributional map for Carex arenaria L.
Map for Carex arenaria L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Carex arenicola F. Schmidt [91]
2) Carex arenicola F. Schmidt ssp. pansa (L.H. Bailey) T. Koyama & Calder [134]
3) Carex artitecta Mack. [133]
4) Carex asa-grayi L.H. Bailey [123]
5) Carex athabascensis F.J. Herm. [144]
6) Carex atlantica L.H. Bailey var. capillacea (L.H. Bailey) Cronquist [134]
7) Carex atrata auct. non L. p.p. [111]
8) Carex atrata L. var. erecta W. Boott [143]
9) Carex barrattii Schwein. & Torr. [297]
10) Carex bipartita All. var. amphigena (Fernald) Polunin [172]

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