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Western Single-spike Sedge - Carex scirpoidea ssp. pseudoscirpoidea
Other Names:
Carex pseudoscirpoidea
Native Species
Global Rank:
G5T5
State Rank:
S4
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General Description
Plants rhizomatous, dioecious. Stems 10-40 cm, shorter than leaves. Leaf blades 1.5-4 mm wide. Pistillate inflorescence: spikelets generally 1, sometimes 2, upper generally larger; spikelet bract wanting or if present then shorter than spike, sometimes leaf-like and sheathing; floral bract obtuse or with a small point, equal to or longer than the perygynium in width, ciliate or not, often minutely hairy, brown to black with wide white margin. Perygyinia 20-40 per spikelet, ascending, 2-3.5 mm long, 1-1.7 mm wide, 3-sided, faintly veined, purplish, faces minutely hairy (at least near beak), beak 0.4-0.7 mm long; fruit 1.5-2.1 mm long, 0.7-1.1 mm wide, more or less equal to length of peryginium body (Mastrogiuseppe, 1993, The Jepson Manual).
Species Range
Montana Range
Range Descriptions
Native
Range Comments
BC to MT and ID, south to CA, WY, UT, CO (Kartesz 2009).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 10
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Habitat
Rocky, seasonally wet areas.
References
- Additional ReferencesLegend: View Online Publication
Do you know of a citation we're missing?- Aho, Ken Andrew. 2006. Alpine and Cliff Ecosystems in the North-Central Rocky Mountains. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bozeman, Montana: Montana State University. 343 p.
- 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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