View source for Carex cordillerana

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|accepted_name=Carex cordillerana
|accepted_authority=Saarela & B. A. Ford
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Bot.
|place=26: 715, figs. 1C, 2C, 3C, 4C, 8. 2001
|year=2001
}}
|common_names=Cordilleran sedge
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phyllostachyae;Carex cordillerana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Carex sect. Phyllostachyae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex cordillerana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 559, 560
|treatment_page=page 562
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>6.8–40 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths pale to medium brown; blades dull green to yellowish green, exceeding culms, 1.5–5.9 mm wide, widest ones 2–5.5 mm wide, herbaceous, margins green, papillose. <b>Lateral</b> spikes 0–3, basal, on erect peduncles. <b>Terminal</b> spikes with staminate portion 2–3-flowered, 1.7–2.6 × 0.4–0.9 mm; pistillate portion 3–5-flowered. <b>Pistillate</b> scales yellowish green to dull olive green, margins green, 2.5–3 mm wide, essentially concealing perigynia, apex acute; distal scales ovate, apex acute. <b>Staminate</b> scales white or green, often with reddish brown tinge, margins connate, sometimes for entire length, enfolding scales above, apex obtuse. <b>Anthers</b> 0.9–1.4 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> yellowish green to dull olive green, obovoid, 3.9–5.4 × 1.6–2.5 mm, tightly enveloping achenes, apex abruptly tapered; beak 0.5–1.6 mm, smooth. <b>Stigmas</b> clavate, erect, minutely papillose. <b>Achenes</b> brown, obpyriform, 2.8–3.5 × 1.5–2.4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (late May–late Jul).
|habitat=Naturally disturbed, rocky slopes with organic layer and leaf litter in mesic mixed forests, or disturbed, open, grassy slopes
|elevation=500–2400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
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name=Carex cordillerana
|author=
|authority=Saarela & B. A. Ford
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–summer (late May–late Jul).
|habitat=Naturally disturbed, rocky slopes with organic layer and leaf litter in mesic mixed forests, or disturbed, open, grassy slopes
|elevation=500–2400 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Bot.
|publication year=2001
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phyllostachyae
|species=Carex cordillerana
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