OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Carex picta   FAMILY Cyperaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex picta   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Carex picta

 

COMMON NAME:
Painted Sedge


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image of Carex picta, Painted Sedge

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_capi5_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Carex picta   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex picta   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Carex picta

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2868

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Dioecious

Habitat: Dry to dry-mesic oak-hickory forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

map
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal? Alternate, 3-ranked?

FLOWER:
Spring
Purplish
Purplish
Perianth absent
3 stamens
Superior ovary
Unisexual

Inflorescence a spike (a single unisexual spike per stem)

FRUIT:
Nutlet

 

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