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Short-scaled Sedge - Carex leptopoda
Other Names:  Carex deweyana var. leptopoda

Status Under Review
Native Species

Global Rank: G5
State Rank: SU
(see State Rank Reason below)
C-value: 6


Agency Status
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State Rank Reason (see State Rank above)
Taxonomic review needed to determine if distinct from C. deweyana.
 
General Description
Plants cespitose or rhizomatous. Stems 20-80 cm. Leaf blades 2.5-5 mm wide. Inlforescence 2-4 cm long; spikelets 5-15 mm long, round to oblong, jagged on sides, bases of lower ones generally more or less pistillate, generally rounded or short-tapered; lowest spikeelt bract leaf-like or not, generally shorter than the inflorescence; pistillate floral bract generally not covering fruit top, generally white, awn 1.2 mm or less. Perigynium ascending to spreading, 2.8-4.5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, generally less than 3x longer than wide, green, body lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, lower wall filled with pity tissue, beak long-tapered, 1-2.7 mm long, teet erect to invcurved, generually less than 03 mm, tip to fruit top generally 1.2-1.8 mm; fruit 1.5-1.9 mm long, 1-1.3 mm wide (from Mastrogiuseppe, 1993, Tne Jepson Manual).

Range Comments
BC and AB south through MT and ID to CA and NV (Kartesz in prep. 2012).

Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 11

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(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)



Habitat
Moist soils, wooded areas (Mastrogiuseppe 1993).

References
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    • Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
    • Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
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