View source for Carex glaucescens

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex glaucescens
|accepted_authority=Elliott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|place=2: 553. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex sempervirens
|authority=Schweinitz
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Glaucescentes;Carex glaucescens
|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. Glaucescentes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex glaucescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 420, 421
|treatment_page=page 422
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>to 120 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths glaucous, fronts strongly veined, veins persisting as a pinnate network, apex thickened, truncate or distal sheaths concave; blades 40–75 cm × 4–8 mm, strongly scabrous on margins and adaxial surface. <b>Inflorescences</b> with 5–7 spikes, 20 cm; peduncle of lateral spikes to 5 cm; proximal bracts equaling inflorescences, 2–4 mm wide; lateral spikes with staminate spikelets at apex, pendent, 3–6 cm × 6–9 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales shorter and narrower than perigynia, apex retuse, awn to 3.5 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending, red-brown, angles veined, faces veinless or indistinctly 3–4-veined, sessile, elliptic, 3.2–5 × 1.8–2.6 mm, base rounded, apex obtuse to tapered, densely papillose with minute translucent papillae giving grayish color, glaucous; beak 0.2–0.5 mm, often minutely bidentate, slightly thickened, teeth to 0.1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ellipsoid, 2.5–3 × 1.5–2 mm, base not conspicuously broadened.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Stream or pond margins, seepage bogs, swamps, wet meadows, ditches, usually in sandy soils and seasonally wet areas
|elevation=0–800 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Grazed or severely disturbed plants of Carex glaucescens sometimes flower in August or later; these plants have condensed inflorescences and androgynous terminal spikes.</p>
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name=Carex glaucescens
|author=
|authority=Elliott
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex sempervirens
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Stream or pond margins, seepage bogs, swamps, wet meadows, ditches, usually in sandy soils and seasonally wet areas
|elevation=0–800 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|publication year=1824
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Glaucescentes
|species=Carex glaucescens
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