Carex vesicaria L.

CYPERACEAE

- Sedge family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Carex vesicaria L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 979 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Blister sedge

English name: bladder sedge

French name: carex vésiculeux

Italian name: Carice vescicosa

German name: Blasen-Segge

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Carex vesicaria L. var. distenta Fr.
2) Carex vesicaria L. var. jejuna Fernald
3) Carex vesicaria L. var. laurentiana Fernald
4) Carex vesicaria L. var. major Boott
5) Carex vesicaria L. var. monile (Tuck.) Fernald
6) Carex vesicaria L. var. raeana (Boott) Fernald
7) Carex vesicaria L. var. vesicaria

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 588 ( AVG: 221.22 / 219.911 )

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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.

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Finlandia, Sulkava, Partalansaari, Auvila., - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Città di Monaco di Baviera, Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg ., Baviera, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Carex vesicaria
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Carex vesicaria
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Carex vesicaria
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Carex vesicaria
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

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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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Credit: Photo by Daniele Carbini

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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

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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".

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Conservatoire et jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève., Svizzera, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

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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: 433.

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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 vesicaria
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Carex vesicaria
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Carex vesicaria
Credit: Photo by Daniele Carbini

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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 vesicaria
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, IA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Carex vesicaria L.
Map for Carex vesicaria 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 vesicaria L. var. major Boott [236]
2) Carex vesicaria L. var. monile (Tuck.) Fernald [257]
3) Carex vesicaria L. var. raeana (Boott) Fernald [305]
4) Carex vicaria L.H. Bailey [290]
5) Carex viridula Michx. [801]
6) Carex viridula Michx. ssp. viridula [268]
7) Carex vulpinoidea Michx. var. vulpinoidea [598]
8) Carex williamsii Britton [285]
9) Carex x exsalina Lepage [252]
10) Carex x pieperiana P. Junge [244]

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