Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Carex pedunculata
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex pedunculata
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Carex pedunculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)
Carex pedunculata ssp. pedunculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23 (2002)
Carex pedunculata var. pedunculata
COMMON NAME:
Longstalk Sedge, Pedunculate Sedge
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cape4_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm220419_6918
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
Leaves: basal sheaths dark reddish to purplish brown; blades mostly basal, dark green, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm220419_6919
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
Leaf blades equaling or mostly exceeding culms, 1.4-4 mm wide, thick, margins smooth or scabrous, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm220419_6935
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
The lower spikes are female and occur at the ends of long, arching stalks up to 13cm long, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm220419_6936
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
Midrib of pistillate scales extending to an awn that may greatly exceed the tip of the perigynia, per www.minnesotawildflowers.info.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Carex pedunculata
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex pedunculata
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Carex pedunculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae (Haines, 2011)
Carex pedunculata ssp. pedunculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23
Carex pedunculata var. pedunculata
4487
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: Nutrient-rich dry to mesic forests, usually over calcareous or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal, equaling or mostly exceeding culms
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], with stout rhizomes
FLOWER:
Spring
Perianth absent
3 stamens
Superior ovary
Unisexual
Inflorescences: spikes (most pistillate spikes emerging from basal nodes on long peduncles to 13 cm)
FRUIT:
Spring
Nutlet
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