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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/13/22):
Carex tenera   FAMILY Cyperaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex tenera   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Carex tenera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23 (2002)

Carex tenera var. tenera

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-17-035:

Carex tenera   FAMILY Cyperaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
Slender Sedge, Quill Sedge


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image of Carex tenera, Slender Sedge, Quill Sedge

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_cate3_002_lvd

        

image of Carex tenera, Slender Sedge, Quill Sedge

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_carex_tenera1

April    Moore County    NC

Inflorescences often flexible and nodding, open, w elongate spikes; rachis usually thin and wiry, per Flora of North America.

image of Carex tenera, Slender Sedge, Quill Sedge

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_carex_tenera1b

April    Moore County    NC

Spikes distant or loosely aggregated, ovoid to globose, base tapered or clavate, apex rounded, per Flora of North America.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/13/22):
Carex tenera   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex tenera   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Carex tenera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23
Carex tenera var. tenera

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-17-035:
Carex tenera   FAMILY Cyperaceae

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4501

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Monoecious

Habitat: Low forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal? Alternate, 3-ranked?

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Densely cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Perianth absent
3 stamens
Superior ovary
Unisexual

Inflorescences: spikes w both staminate & pistillate flowers (pistillate above)

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer?
Nutlet

 

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