Carex alopecoidea

Tuckerman

Enum. Meth. Caric., 18. 1843.

Common names: Carex alopécoïde
IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 275. Mentioned on page 273, 274.

Plants with basal sheaths of previous year persistent as linear fibers. Culms to 80 cm × 4 mm, scabrous. Leaves: sheaths all with blades, fronts smooth, red spotted, indistinctly linearly veined, apex hyaline, colorless, fragile, convex, entire; ligules rounded, 5 mm, free limb to 0.5 mm; blades dark green, not epistomic, to 60 cm × 7 mm. Inflorescences densely spicate, elongated, cylindric, with 8–12 branches, 2–4 × 1.5 cm; proximal internode to 0.5 mm; proximal bracts setaceous, apparent. Scales coppery with hyaline margins. Perigynia pale brown, coppery distally, faintly 3–5-veined or veinless abaxially, veinless adaxially, to 4 × 1.7 mm, base not distended proximally, rounded; stipe to 0.2 mm; beak to 2 mm, serrulate. Achenes circular, 1.5 × 1.3 mm; stalk to 0.15 mm; persistent style base cylindric. 2n = 68.


Phenology: Fruiting Jul.
Habitat: Seasonally saturated soils in wet meadows, openings in alluvial woods, stream banks, particularly on calcareous substrates
Elevation: 0–1500 m

Distribution

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Man., N.S., Ont., Que., Sask., Conn., Del., D.C., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., N.J., N.Y., N.Dak., Ohio, Pa., Vt., Wis.

Discussion

Morphologically Carex alopecoidea is most similar to C. conjuncta; it differs in the smooth sheath fronts and the abaxial veins faint or absent.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Lisa A. Standley +
Tuckerman +
Vulpinae +
Carex alopécoïde +
Man. +, N.S. +, Ont. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Conn. +, Del. +, D.C. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Ky. +, Maine +, Md. +, Mass. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.Dak. +, Ohio +, Pa. +, Vt. +  and Wis. +
0–1500 m +
Seasonally saturated soils in wet meadows, openings in alluvial woods, stream banks, particularly on calcareous substrates +
Fruiting Jul. +
Enum. Meth. Caric., +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Carex alopecoidea +
Carex sect. Vulpinae +
species +