Carex muricata L.

CYPERACEAE

- Sedge family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Carex muricata L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 974 (1753)
Rank: species

Images of Carex muricata

Common names

U.S. name: Rough sedge

Italian name: Carice muricata

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Carex pairaei F.W. Schultz
= Carex stellulata auct. non Goodenough

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Carex muricata L. var. angustata (Carey) Carey ex Gleason
2) Carex muricata L. var. cephalantha (L.H. Bailey) Wiegand & Eames
3) Carex muricata L. var. laricina (Mack. ex Bright) Gleason
4) Carex muricata L. var. ruthii (Mack.) Gleason
5) Carex muricata L. var. sterilis (Willd.) Gleason

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 1055 ( AVG: 221.15 / 219.876 )

Gallery:

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

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

Carex muricata
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: 365.

Carex muricata
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 muricata
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 muricata
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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- 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 (MI, PA), CAN (NB, ON)

Distributional map for Carex muricata L.
Map for Carex muricata 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 nardina Fr. var. hepburnii (Boott) Kük. [251]
2) Carex nebrascensis Dewey [342]
3) Carex nervina L.H. Bailey [226]
4) Carex nigra (L.) Reichard [621]
5) Carex nigricans C.A. Mey. [368]
6) Carex nova L.H. Bailey var. pelocarpa (F.J. Herm.) Dorn [136]
7) Carex oligosperma Michx. [233]
8) Carex pallescens L. [382]
9) Carex paupercula Michx. [227]
10) Carex pensylvanica Lam. var. glumabunda Peck [171]

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