Carex saxatilis L.

CYPERACEAE

- Sedge family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Carex saxatilis L.

Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Rock sedge

English name: russet sedge

French name: carex saxatile

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Carex miliaris Michx.
= Carex physocarpa J. Presl & C. Presl
= Carex rhomalea (Fernald) Mack.
= Carex rotundata Wahlenb. var. compacta (R. Br. ex Dewey) B. Boivin
= Carex saxatilis L. ssp. laxa (Trautv.) Kalela
= Carex saxatilis L. var. miliaris (Michx.) L.H. Bailey
= Carex saxatilis L. var. rhomalea Fernald

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Carex saxatilis L. ssp. laxa (Trautv.) Kalela
2) Carex saxatilis L. var. major Olney
3) Carex saxatilis L. var. miliaris (Michx.) L.H. Bailey
4) Carex saxatilis L. var. rhomalea Fernald

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 716 ( AVG: 221.04 / 219.716 )

Gallery:

Carex saxatilis
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

Carex saxatilis
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: 431.

Carex saxatilis
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 saxatilis
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: 432.

Carex saxatilis
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 saxatilis
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: 432.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CO, ID, ME, MT, OR, UT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

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Map for Carex saxatilis 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 scabrata Schwein. [232]
2) Carex scopulorum T. Holm [249]
3) Carex sempervirens Vill. [272]
4) Carex siccata Dewey [332]
5) Carex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd. var. cephaloidea (Dewey) Carey [87]
6) Carex stipata Muhl. ex Willd. [236]
7) Carex stylosa C.A. Mey. [273]
8) Carex sylvatica Huds. [2774]
9) Carex tomentosa L. [344]
10) Carex venusta Dewey [282]

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