General:
Perennial herb from slender rhizomes; stems solitary, arising singly or a few together, stiff, erect, 10-60 cm tall, longer than the leaves.
Leaves:
Sheaths brownish, tight; blades 1 to 3, flat or channeled, 0.5-1.8 mm wide, smooth or sometimes with roughened margins, ascending, the tips long-pointed.
Flowers:
Spikes solitary, 0.5-1.5 cm long, 0.5-1.2 mm wide, with both female and male flowers, the few erect male flowers towards the tips, the lower 1 to 6 flowers female; bractless.
Fruits:
Perigynia few, narrowly lanceolate, 6-7.5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, pale green, becoming brownish-green or straw-coloured, soon reflexed, nearly round in cross-section, membranaceous, smooth, finely-nerved, unstalked, the beaks not differentiated from the bodies; female scales lanceolate, short-awned, as wide as or slightly wider and shorter than the perigynia, brownish, early deciduous, with greener midstripes, the margins often translucent; stigmas 3; achenes 3-angled, 1.5-2.5 mm long.
If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.
Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
909 | 20 | 2260 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
2 | 0 | 56 |
Aspect (degrees) |
73 | 0 | 360 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
6 | 1 | 8 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
B | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
322 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
SBS | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BWBS(17), CDF(4), CWH(56), ESSF(75), ICH(56), IDF(3), MH(10), MS(7), SBPS(3), SBS(80), SWB(3) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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View a video on identification of Carex pauciflora by Tony Reznicek, University of Michigan.
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