Carex foenea Fernald
bronze sedge
Cyperaceae (Sedge family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
bronze sedge
Cyperaceae (Sedge family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Photograph
Species Information
General:
Perennial, tufted herb from fibrous roots; stems 30-80 cm tall, exceeding the leaves.
Leaves:
Sheaths tight; blades flat, 2-5 mm wide, borne on the lower half of the stems but not crowded at the bases.
Flowers:
Spikes 4 to 8, with both female and male flowers, the female ones towards the tips, the part with stamens often elongated, the spikes unstalked, forming a loose inflorescence with lower spikes remote; bracts subtending the spikes reduced and inconspicuous.
Fruits:
Perigynia egg-shaped, 3.5-5 mm long, 1.6-2.2 mm wide, light green to straw-coloured or brownish, more or less flattened, the margins winged nearly to the bases and the upper 1/2 fringed with teeth, lightly several-nerved on both sides or with fainter ner
Illustration
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
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Carex foenea
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
| Site Information |
Value / Class |
||
|
Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
| Elevation
(metres) |
1194 | 560 | 1760 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
14 | 0 | 100 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
238 | 8 | 336 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
5 | 0 | 8 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
38 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
ESSF | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BAFA(3), BWBS(5), CWH(1), ESSF(11), ICH(2), IDF(1), MS(1), SBPS(4), SBS(8), SWB(2) | ||
|
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
|
|||
Habitat and Range
Dry to moist disturbed sites and open forests in the lowland and montane zones; common in BC in and E of the Coast-Cascade Mountains, infrequent in coastal SW BC; N to AK and YT, E. to Labr. and NF and S to MA, PA, MN, SD, MT, ID and WA.Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Carex aenea