Carex glareosa

Wahlenberg

Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 24: 146. 1803.

Illustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 315. Mentioned on page 312, 314.

Plants densely cespitose, in small clumps; rhizomes short. Culms often arching, weak, 10–40 (–60) cm. Leaves: sheaths pale to mid brown abaxially, inner band thin and hyaline, concave at summit; ligules as wide as long, 2–8 mm; blades usually gray-green, flat to channeled, 5–15 cm × 1–2 mm, usually shorter than culms. Inflorescences erect, 1–2 cm × 5–12 mm; proximal bracts usually scalelike, shorter than spikes. Spikes 2–4, closely approximate, individually distinct, proximal lateral spikes pistillate, containing 5–10 (–15) perigynia, oblong-linear; terminal spike gynecandrous, containing 10 (–20) perigynia, clavate. Pistillate scales pale to redbrown with yellowbrown center and white-hyaline margins, oblongovate, subequal to perigynia, apex obtuse. Perigynia ascending, light to pale-brown, often graybrown at maturity, lightly or obscurely several-veined, from broadly elliptic-obovate to lanceolate, 1.5–3.5 × 1.–1.5 mm, widest near middle, subcoriaceous; beak short, entire. Achenes mid brown to redbrown, elliptic, 1.5 × 1–1.25 mm, dull to slightly glossy. 2n = 66.

Distribution

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B.C., Man., N.B., N.W.T., Nunavut, Ont., P.E.I., Que., Yukon, Alaska, Eurasia

Discussion

Subspecies 3 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Leaves 1–2 mm wide; pistillate scales 2–3 mm. Carex glareosa subsp. glareosa
1 Leaves 1.5–2.5 mm wide; pistillate scales 2.7–3.5 mm. Carex glareosa subsp. pribylovensis

"shortened" is not a number."widest" is not a number.

... more about "Carex glareosa"
brown +  and redbrown +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
dull +  and slightly glossy +
biconvex +
smaller +
1mm;1.25mm +
beaked +  and beakless +
papillose +  and smooth +
Heikki Toivonen +
Wahlenberg +
truncate +  and rounded +
inconspicuous +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br />) +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
flat +  and channeled +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
yellowbrown +
round +  and trigonous +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
B.C. +, Man. +, N.B. +, N.W.T. +, Nunavut +, Ont. +, P.E.I. +, Que. +, Yukon +, Alaska +  and Eurasia +
open +, pistillate +  and staminate +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
sessile +  and pistillate +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
white-hyaline +
angled;rounded +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
light +  and pale-brown +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
subcoriaceous +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
sheathless +  and bristlelike +
Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. +
adventitious +
pale +  and redbrown +
basal +  and proximal +
2-keeled +
subequal +
cylindric +
Illustrated +
approximate +
distinct +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
deciduous +
2-3(-4)-fid +
Carex glareosa +
Carex sect. Glareosae +
species +
plant +  and cespitose +