OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Carex lutea   FAMILY Cyperaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex lutea   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Carex lutea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Carex lutea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3 (1997)

Carex lutea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Carex lutea (Cyperaceae), a rare new Coastal Plain endemic from North Carolina (LeBlond et al., 1994)

Carex lutea

 

COMMON NAME:
Golden Sedge


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Carex lutea   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex lutea   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Carex lutea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Carex lutea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3
Carex lutea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Carex lutea (Cyperaceae), a rare new Coastal Plain endemic from North Carolina (LeBlond et al., 1994)
Carex lutea

 

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4886

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Wet pine savannas shallowly underlain by coquina limestone, with open canopy of Taxodium ascendens, Pinus palustris, and Liriodendron tulipifera, also more acid substrates in Panhandle FL, where in wet pineland ecotones between sandhills and small stream swamps, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal
Leaves glabrous

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]

FLOWER:
Spring
Pistillate scales pale yellowish-green

Inflorescences: spikes (terminal spike staminate; 0-2 (very rarely 3) lateral spikes pistillate)

FRUIT:
Spring?
Pistillate scales pale yellowish-green

 

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