Carex pendula Huds.

CYPERACEAE

- Sedge family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Carex pendula Huds.

Nomencl. ref.: Fl. Angl.: 352 (1762)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Hanging sedge

English name: drooping sedge

English name: pendulous sedge

French name: laîche pendante

Italian name: Carice maggiore

German name: Riesen-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 pendula
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto Botanico., PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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

Carex pendula
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Lungo la strada che da Cervignano conduce a Torviscosa., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carex pendula
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Carex pendula
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei

Carex pendula
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 pendula
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei

Carex pendula
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Vienna, Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis, Orto botanico dell'Università di Vienna., Austria, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carex pendula
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Carex pendula
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 pendula
Credit: Photo by Pino Perino

Carex pendula
Credit: Photo by Carlo Cibei

Carex pendula
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Carex pendula
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Carex pendula
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 pendula
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Carex pendula
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Venezia, Sestiere Castello, Viale Giuseppe Garibaldi, VE, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carex pendula
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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Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (VA, WA)

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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 pensylvanica Lam. ssp. heliophila (Mack.) W.A. Weber [175]
2) Carex pensylvanica Lam. var. digyna Boeckeler [175]
3) Carex pensylvanica Lam. var. distans Peck [170]
4) Carex pensylvanica Lam. var. lucorum (Willd. ex Link) Fernald [145]
5) Carex pensylvanica Lam. var. separans Peck [169]
6) Carex petricosa Dewey var. distichiflora (B. Boivin) B. Boivin [174]
7) Carex phyllomanica W. Boott var. angustata (Carey) B. Boivin [142]
8) Carex plectocarpa F.J. Herm. [148]
9) Carex praticola Rydb. var. subcoriacea F.J. Herm. [91]
10) Carex remota L. [excluded] [309]

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