Carex flava L.

CYPERACEAE

- Sedge family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Carex flava L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 975 (1753)
Rank: species

Images of Carex flava

Common names

U.S. name: Yellow sedge

English name: large yellow sedge

English name: yellow sedge

French name: carex jaune

Italian name: Carice gialla

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Carex flava L. var. fertilis Peck
= Carex flava L. var. gaspensis Fernald
= Carex flava L. var. graminis L.H. Bailey
= Carex flava L. var. laxior (Kük.) Gleason
= Carex flava L. var. rectirostra Gaudin
= Carex nevadensis Boiss. & Reut. ssp. flavella (Krecz.) Janchen

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Carex flava L. var. fertilis auct. non Peck
2) Carex flava L. var. fertilis Peck
3) Carex flava L. var. gaspensis Fernald
4) Carex flava L. var. graminis L.H. Bailey
5) Carex flava L. var. laxior (Kük.) Gleason
6) Carex flava L. var. lepidocarpa (Tausch) Gord.
7) Carex flava L. var. nelmesiana (Raymond) B. Boivin
8) Carex flava L. var. rectirostra Gaudin

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 1445 ( AVG: 221.76 / 290.696 )

Gallery:

Carex flava
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Carex flava
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Forni di Sopra, Val D'Arzino, presso il Rifugio del Monte Giaf., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carex flava
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.

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

Carex flava
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ampezzo, località Passo del Pura, margine di un bosco., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carex flava
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ampezzo, Passo del Pura., UD, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carex flava
Credit: Photo by Umberto Ferrando

Carex flava
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 flava
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Carex flava
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 flava
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Vigo Di Cadore, località Casera Razzo, nei pressi della malga, BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carex flava
Credit: Photo by Villiam Morelli

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

Carex flava
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carex flava
Credit: Photo by Daniele Carbini

Carex flava
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 flava
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Carex flava
Credit: Photo by Daniele Carbini

Carex flava
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Sappada, alta Val Sesis., BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carex flava
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Carex flava
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".

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Links:
- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
- Lichens - Interactive identification keys to the lichens
- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CT, ID, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NU, ON, PE, QC, YT), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Carex flava L.
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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 flava L. var. fertilis auct. non Peck [110]
2) Carex flava L. var. gaspensis Fernald [127]
3) Carex flava L. var. rectirostra Gaudin [91]
4) Carex foetida All. var. vernacula (L.H. Bailey) Kük. [104]
5) Carex frankii Kunth [413]
6) Carex fuliginosa Schkuhr ssp. misandra (R. Br.) Nyman [88]
7) Carex granularis Muhl. ex Willd. var. granularis [144]
8) Carex harperi Fernald [128]
9) Carex hirtifolia Mack. [310]
10) Carex impressa (S.H. Wright) Mack. [74]

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