Carex capitata L.
CYPERACEAE
- Sedge family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Carex capitata L.
Nomencl. ref.: Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1261 (1759)
Rank: species
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Common names
U.S.
name:
Capitate sedge
Italian name: Carice capitata
Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
Synonyms:
Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Carex capitata L. ssp. arctogena (Harry Sm.) Hiitonen
2) Carex capitata L. ssp. capitata
3) Carex capitata L. var. arctogena (Harry Sm.) Hultén
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
Page counter: 798 ( AVG: 222.37 / 291.405 )
Gallery:
Carex capitata
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich. 1998. Field guide to Intermountain sedges. General Technical Report RMS-GTR-10. USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Ogden. - Not copyrighted image
Carex capitata
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de
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Carex capitata
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich. 1998. Field guide to Intermountain sedges. General Technical Report RMS-GTR-10. USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Ogden. - Not copyrighted image
Carex capitata
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: 361.
Carex capitata
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CA, CO, ID, MT, NH, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NF, NT, NU, ON, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL)
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(*) 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 capitata L. var. arctogena (Harry Sm.) Hultén [137]
2) Carex careyana Torr. ex Dewey [297]
3) Carex caryophyllea Lat. [1207]
4) Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd. [463]
5) Carex cephalophora Muhl. ex Willd. var. leavenworthii (Dewey) Kük. [185]
6) Carex chordorrhiza Ehrh. ex L. f. [358]
7) Carex conjuncta Boott [315]
8) Carex crinita Lam. var. mitchelliana (M.A. Curtis) Gleason [138]
9) Carex depauperata Curtis ex With. [1490]
10) Carex dioica L. [excluded] [904]
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