Carex buxbaumii Wahlenb.
Buxbaum's sedge (club sedge)
Cyperaceae (Sedge family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Buxbaum's sedge (club sedge)
Cyperaceae (Sedge family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Species Information
General:
Perennial, tufted herb from slender, creeping rhizomes; stems 30-80 cm tall, exceeding the leaves.
Leaves:
Sheaths purplish-red towards the bases; blades flat, 2-4 mm wide, the lower ones reduced, the old sheaths breaking in a feather-like pattern.
Flowers:
Spikes usually 2 to 5, the terminal spikes with both female and male flowers, the female ones towards the tips, the lower spikes 1 to 4, with female flowers, short-stalked, 0.6-3 cm long, erect; bracts subtending the spikes short-sheathing, leaflike, about equalling the inflorescence.
Fruits:
Perigynia elliptical, 3-4 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, bluish-green, finely nerved, the beaks obscure, less than 0.3 mm long; female scales lanceolate, nearly as long as to longer and narrower than the perigynia, awn-tipped, reddish-black, roughly pimpled; stigmas 3; achenes 3-angled, granular, 1.5-1.7 mm long.
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 buxbaumii
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) |
1042 | 130 | 1595 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
0 | 0 | 5 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
100 | 35 | 220 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
7 | 5 | 8 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
32 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
ICH | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
CWH(3), ESSF(6), ICH(11), IDF(1), MS(5), SBS(4) | ||
|
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
|
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Habitat and Range
Bogs, fens, wet shrublands, thickets, shorelines and meadows in the lowland and montane zones; frequent in WC and S BC, absent from N BC except the extreme NW; circumpolar, N to AK and YT, E to NF and S to ME, MA, NJ, PA, SC, TN, AR, KS, CO, UT, NV and CA; Eurasia, Australia.Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Carex adelostoma Krecz.