Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Carex tenera Dewey


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

Taxon Page:

Name: Carex tenera Dewey Taxon selection
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Quill sedge

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Carex tenera Dewey var. echinodes (Fernald) Wiegand


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Carex tenera Dewey var. echinodes (Fernald) Wiegand



TAXONOMY

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


Page counter: 314 ( AVG: 223.15 / 292.366 )



Gallery:

Carex tenera
Carex tenera
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA SCS. 1989. Midwest wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. Midwest National Technical Center, Lincoln. - Not copyrighted image

Carex tenera
Carex tenera
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, CO, CT, DC, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NS, ON, QC, SK)

Distributional map for Carex tenera Dewey
Map for Carex tenera Dewey
(*) 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 tenera Dewey var. echinodes (Fernald) Wiegand [132]
2) Carex tetanica Schkuhr var. woodii (Dewey) Alph. Wood [145]
3) Carex texensis (Torr.) L.H. Bailey [324]
4) Carex tomentosa L. [358]
5) Carex torta Boott ex Tuck. [383]
6) Carex triceps auct. non Michx. [146]
7) Carex varia Muhl. ex Willd., non Host [91]
8) Carex virens sensu Mack., non Lam. [141]
9) Carex vulpinoidea Michx. var. vulpinoidea [601]
10) Carex x copulata (L.H. Bailey) Mack. [144]

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