View source for Carex comosa

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|accepted_name=Carex comosa
|accepted_authority=Boott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Linn. Soc. London
|place=1: 258. 1846
|year=1846
}}
|common_names=Carex à toupet
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Vesicariae;Carex comosa
|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. Vesicariae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex comosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 502, 508, 511
|treatment_page=page 510
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes short, no more than 10 cm. <b>Culms</b> trigonous in cross section, 50–120 cm, scabrous distally. <b>Leaves</b>: basal sheaths pale brown; ligules usually much longer than wide; blades mid to dark green, flat to W-shaped, 5–16 mm wide, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 4–35 cm; proximal bract 15–85 cm, much longer than inflorescence; proximal (2–)3–6 spikes pistillate, erect or the proximal pendent, cylindric, 12–18 mm thick; terminal staminate or, sometimes, gynaecandrous, androgynous, or mixed. <b>Pistillate</b> scales lanceolate-acuminate, 2.8–12 × 0.4–1 mm, all but the proximal shorter than perigynia, margins ciliate, apex tapering to long scabrous awn. <b>Staminate</b> scales scabrous-awned, sometimes ciliate-margined. <b>Perigynia</b> spreading to reflexed when mature, strongly 14–22-veined, most veins separated by less than 2 times their width, confluent at or proximal to mid beak, tightly investing achene, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, (4.8–)6.2–8.7 × 1.1–1.8 mm, leathery, apex gradually tapered; beak poorly defined, 2–3.8 mm, bidentate, teeth outcurved, 1.3–2.1(–2.8) mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> pale brown, trigonous, smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Swamps and wet thickets, stream, pond, and lakeshores, depressions in wet meadows, marshes, including freshwater tidal marshes, often in shallow water or on emergent stumps, floating logs, and floating mats of vegetation
|elevation=0–700 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;Wis.;Mexico.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex comosa</i> is uncommon and local in the west and south of glaciated regions in the east except in some coastal areas.</p><!--
--><p><i>Carex comosa</i> rarely forms sterile hybrids with <i>C. pseudocyperus</i> and <i>C. hystericina</i>.</p>
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name=Carex comosa
|authority=Boott
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Swamps and wet thickets, stream, pond, and lakeshores, depressions in wet meadows, marshes, including freshwater tidal marshes, often in shallow water or on emergent stumps, floating logs, and floating mats of vegetation
|elevation=0–700 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;Wis.;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Linn. Soc. London
|publication year=1846
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Vesicariae
|species=Carex comosa
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