Distribution

  - range by political unit   - GBIF data

  - known populations

Description

Fruiting period	April  to September.
Culm height	50 - 120 cm.
Leaf	5 - 16 mm. wide.
Terminal spike	staminate; occasionally androgynous or gynecandrous.
Lateral spike	pistillate.
Perigynium	circular to biconvex in cross section.
Achene	trigonous.
Style	persistent.

Quick description

Inflorescence usually with three pistillate spikes crowding the top of culm.

Author and publication information for name

Carex comosa Boott, Proc. Linn. Soc. London. 1: 258. 1846.

Conservation and Wetland Status

Threatened and Endangered Status

State	Status
Kentucky	Historical
New Hampshire	Threatened
Washington	Sensitive

Wetland Status

Obligate Wetland

Vernacular name

Bristly Sedge

Section

Carex sect. Vesicariae

Links

Carex Interactive Identification Key

Flora Of North America treatment

Burke Museum of Natural History Image Collection

Tennessee Vascular Plants Atlas

Cybersedge. Texas A&M University

Download Excel spreadsheet of GBIF data

References

Ball, P.W. and A.A. Reznicek. 2002. Carex
Pp. 254-572. Flora of North America, volume 23.
Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford.

U.S. Department of Agriculture.
PLANTS Database.
http://plants.usda.gov/index.html
Accessed primarily in August 2006.

GBIF Data Portal  www.gbif.org
Missouri Botanical Garden, 03 records;
University of Alambama, 05 records;
University of Oregon Herbarium, 04 records.
Accessed on Oct 11 2006.

© T. M. Jones 2006

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