Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Carex is a vast genus of over 2,000 species [2] of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books). Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus Carex may be called true sedges , and it is the most species-rich genus in the family.
Carex remota, the remote sedge, is a species in the genus Carex, native to Europe, the Atlas Mountains in Africa, and western Asia. [2] It is a riparian forest specialist. [ 3 ]
Carex is a subgenus of the sedge genus Carex. It is the largest of the four traditionally recognised subgenera, containing around 1400 of the 2000 species in the genus. [ 1 ] Its members are characterised by the presence of one or more exclusively male (staminate) terminal spikes , quite dissimilar in appearance from the lateral female ...
Carex hirta is the type species of the genus Carex, [5] and therefore also of the subgenus Carex and the section Carex.It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 Species Plantarum, and the lectotype, from the herbarium of Adriaan van Royen, was designated by Ilkka Kukkonen in 1992.
Carex sempervirens is a vigorous, perennial grass-like plant, growing between 20–50 cm in height; glabrous, with a very tenacious rootstock; the stem leafy only at the base. Leaves are 2–4 mm wide, rough, and shorter than the stem.
Carex hudsonii A.Benn. [2] Illustration of Carex acuta Carex acuta , the acute sedge , slender tufted-sedge , [ 2 ] or slim sedge , can be found growing on the margins of rivers and lakes [ 2 ] in the Palaearctic terrestrial ecoregions in beds of wet, alkaline or slightly acid depressions with mineral soil .
Carex digitata, finger sedge, or fingered sedge is a species in the genus Carex, native to Europe and western Asia. [2] It is found most often in shady, deciduous mesotrophic oak‑hornbeam forests. [ 3 ]
Carex alba, called the small white sedge, white-flowered sedge or just white sedge (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of sedge in the family Cyperaceae. [2] It is typically found in temperate forests of Eurasia, from the Pyrenees to the Russian Far East. [ 1 ]