General:
Perennial, rhizomatous herb from long, slender rhizomes; stems 20-90 cm tall, exceeding the leaves.
Leaves:
Sheaths tight, green; blades flat, 1.5-3 mm wide, the lower ones reduced to scales.
Flowers:
Spikes 4 to 12, unstalked, 0.6-1 cm long, clustered into a 1.5- to 3.5-cm long cylindrical head, the upper spikes with both male and female flowers, the male flowers usually towards the tips, the lower spikes slightly remote; bracts subtending the spikes strongly reduced, only the lowermost sometimes bristlelike.
Fruits:
Perigynia egg-shaped, 3-6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, yellowish- to reddish-brown, plano-convex, the margins winged and fringed with teeth above the middle, 8- to 14-nerved on the backs, nerveless or nerved at the bases, the beaks bidentate, about as long as the perigynia bodies; female scales egg-shaped, nearly or as long and wide as the perigynia, pointed at the tips, reddish- or yellowish-brown, the centres 3-nerved with narrow, green margins; stigmas 2; achenes lens-shaped, 1.5-2 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) |
1207 | 645 | 2103 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
14 | 0 | 75 |
Aspect (degrees) |
196 | 90 | 312 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
4 | 1 | 8 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
D | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
16 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
ESSF | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BAFA(1), BWBS(2), ESSF(5), IDF(2), MS(1), PP(3), SBS(2) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Carex foenea var. enervis Evans & Mohlenbr.
Carex foenea var. foenea
Carex foenea var. tuberculata F.J. Herm.