Carex sprengelii

Dewey ex Sprengel

Syst. Veg. 3: 827. 1826.

Common names: Sprengel’s sedge long-beaked sedge carex de Sprengel
IllustratedEndemic
Synonyms: Carex longirostris Torrey
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 473. Mentioned on page 255, 461, 462.

Plants with short-creeping rhizomes, loosely cespitose, forming colonies. Culms brown at base, densely covered with brown fibrillose remains of previous year’s leaves; flowering-stems 30–90 cm, longer than leaves at maturity, 0.5–0.7 mm thick, glabrous but finely scabrous within inflorescence. Leaves: sheaths glabrous, basal ones tinged with brown and all bearing blades, green to hyaline on back, white-hyaline on front; blades flat, 2.5–4 mm wide, finely scabrous on adaxial surface and margins, glabrous on abaxial surface. Inflorescences: peduncles of lateral spikes slender, 20–60 mm, equaling or somewhat longer than spikes, finely scabrous; peduncle of terminal spike 5–15 mm, scabrous; proximal bracts equaling inflorescences or more often shorter; sheaths 3–5 mm or rarely longer; blades 1–1.5 mm wide. Lateral spikes 4–5, 1 per node; proximal spikes well separated, nodding or drooping at maturity, pistillate with 10–40 perigynia about 1 mm apart, cylindric, 10–35 × 8–10 mm; distal spikes crowded near apex, sessile or nearly so, staminate or androgynous, linear, less than 20 mm. Terminal spike staminate or rarely with a few perigynia at base, 10–20 × 1.5–2 mm. Pistillate scales pale hyaline tinged with chestnut, narrow midrib green, sometimes finely scabrous, ovateoblong, shorter than mature perigynia, apex long-acuminate, glabrous. Perigynia shiny tan to golden green, 2-ribbed, but otherwise veinless, closely enveloping achene at maturity, ovoid-ellipsoid, 4.5–6.5 × 1.5–2 mm, membranous, base acute, apex abruptly contracted to beak, glabrous; beak bidentate, narrowly tubular, nearly as long as body, finely scabrous on edge, teeth hyaline, 1 mm. Achenes substipitate, 2–2.5 × 1.7–1.8 mm. 2n = 42.


Phenology: Fruiting early to mid summer.
Habitat: Dry to mesic deciduous forests and forest openings, floodplain forests and riverbanks, lakeshores, limestone river bluffs, mixed conifer-hardwood forests, thickets, meadows, roadsides, often associated with calcareous rocks and soils

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., Ont., Que., Sask., Colo., Conn., Del., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Maine, Mass., Mich., Minn., Mo., Mont., Nebr., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.Dak., Pa., S.Dak., Vt., Wis., Wyo.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"shortened" is not a number."thick" is not a number.

... more about "Carex sprengelii"
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
trigonous +
1.7mm;1.8mm +
4.5mm;6.5mm +
acute;ovoid-ellipsoid;long-acuminate +
membranous +
1.5mm;2mm +
Marcia J. Waterway +
Dewey ex Sprengel +
white-hyaline;green;hyaline +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (0.65 cm6.5 mm <br />0.0065 m <br />) +
acute +  and ovoid-ellipsoid +
membranous +
1.5mm;2mm +
Hymenochlaenae +
tubular +  and bidentate +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
m--shaped +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
Sprengel’s sedge +, long-beaked sedge +  and carex de Sprengel +
round +  and trigonous +
staminate +, nearly +  and sessile +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, N.B. +, Ont. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Colo. +, Conn. +, Del. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Maine +, Mass. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, Mo. +, Mont. +, Nebr. +, N.H. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.Dak. +, Pa. +, S.Dak. +, Vt. +, Wis. +  and Wyo. +
open +, pistillate +  and staminate +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br />) +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Dry to mesic deciduous forests and forest openings, floodplain forests and riverbanks, lakeshores, limestone river bluffs, mixed conifer-hardwood forests, thickets, meadows, roadsides, often associated with calcareous rocks and soils +
nodding +  and erect +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
entire +  and bidentate +
somewhat longer +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
veinless +  and pistillate +
tan +  and golden green +
mature +  and maturity +
ascending +  and erect +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
Fruiting early to mid summer. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
, +, suffused with maroon or suffused with chestnut-brown +, white +  and hyaline +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
apart +  and separated +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
drooping +  and nodding +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
fibrillose +
adventitious +
tinged with chestnut +  and pale hyaline +
basal +  and proximal +
2-keeled +
cylindric +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
deciduous +
2-3(-4)-fid +
Carex longirostris +
Carex sprengelii +
Carex sect. Hymenochlaenae +
species +
rarely +  and staminate +
androgynous +  and gynecandrous +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
plant +  and cespitose +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
not septate-nodulose +