Carex debilis

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassLiliopsida
4. OrderPoales
5. FamilyCyperaceae

Native toAlabama, Arkansas, Azores, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana

Plants densely cespitose. Culms dark maroon at base; flowering stems 25–100 cm, as long as leaves at maturity or often longer, 0.5–1 mm thick, glabrous but scabrous within inflorescence. Leaves: basal sheaths maroon, bladeless, glabrous or rarely minutely pubescent; others grading from maroon to green on back, pale brown-hyaline or reddish brown on front, often red dotted, sometimes finely pubescent; blades flat, 2–7 mm wide, glabrous on both surfaces, margins and abaxial midribs often finely scabrous. Inflorescences: peduncles of lateral spikes slender, to 50 mm, usually shorter than spikes or only slightly longer, scabrous; of terminal spike 15–50 mm, finely scabrous; proximal bracts longer, or more often, shorter than inflorescences; sheaths 1–7 cm; blades 1–3.5 mm wide. Lateral spikes 2–5, 1 per node, well separated, erect at anthesis, soon nodding, pistillate with 10–25 perigynia attached 2–9 mm apart, linear, 25–80 × 2–3 mm. Terminal spike staminate or sometimes gynecandrous with a few pistillate flowers distally; 15–50 × 0.6–1.2 mm. Pistillate scales white-hyaline, sometimes tinged with pale brown or suffused with chestnut, with broad green midrib, finely red dotted, oblong,

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

4,568

With media

4,000

Family

Cyperaceae

Collections

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, VT, QUE, USFWS, ANSP, CHAS

Recorded in

Canada, United States

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Carex

Image

Carex debilis NRCS-1.jpg

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