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Scientific or common name:

Carex microptera Mack.


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

Taxon Page:

Name: Carex microptera Mack. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Muhlenbergia v. 56 (1909).
Rank: species

pictures Images of Carex microptera


Common names

US name U.S. name: Smallwing sedge

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Carex festivella Mack.
= Carex limnophila F.J. Herm.
= Carex macloviana d'Urv. ssp. festivella (Mack.) A. Löve & D. Löve
= Carex macloviana d'Urv. var. microptera (Mack.) B. Boivin
= Carex microptera Mack. var. crassinervia F.J. Herm.
= Carex microptera Mack. var. limnophila (F.J. Herm.) Dorn


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Carex microptera Mack. var. crassinervia F.J. Herm.
2) Carex microptera Mack. var. limnophila (F.J. Herm.) Dorn



TAXONOMY

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


Page counter: 331 ( AVG: 222.51 / 291.488 )



Gallery:

Carex microptera
Carex microptera
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 microptera
Carex microptera
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 microptera
Carex microptera
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. - Not copyrighted image


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, SD, UT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NT, SK, YT)

Distributional map for Carex microptera Mack.
Map for Carex microptera Mack.
(*) 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 microptera Mack. var. crassinervia F.J. Herm. [132]
2) Carex microptera Mack. var. limnophila (F.J. Herm.) Dorn [132]
3) Carex miliaris Michx. [127]
4) Carex miserabilis Mack. [127]
5) Carex montanensis L.H. Bailey [133]
6) Carex muricata L. [1075]
7) Carex nebrascensis Dewey [343]
8) Carex nigricans C.A. Mey. [369]
9) Carex nova L.H. Bailey var. pelocarpa (F.J. Herm.) Dorn [136]
10) Carex pachystachya Cham. ex Steud. var. monds-coulteri L. Kelso [132]

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