Carex leavenworthii Dewey (Q476)

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Carex leavenworthii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
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Carex leavenworthii Dewey
Carex leavenworthii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin

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    taxon/id/Carex leavenworthii Dewey
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    Carex leavenworthii Dewey
    Carex leavenworthii
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Leavenworth (French)
    Leavenworth's sedge (English)
    Leavenworth's bracted sedge (English)
    dwarf bracted sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    dry grasslands
    roadsides
    open forests
    forest edges
    Plants without conspicuous rhizomes.
    Culms 10–80 cm, 1–2.4 mm wide basally, 0.5–1 mm wide distally.
    Leaves: sheaths tight, green or, sometimes, green-and-white-mottled, fronts hyaline;
    ligules to 2 mm, usually longer than wide;
    widest leaf-blades 1.1–3 (–4) mm wide.
    Inflorescences forming dense heads, with 3–8 spikes, 0.7–2 cm × 4.5–9 mm;
    proximal bracts to 2 cm;
    spikes with 6–10 ascending or spreading perigynia.
    Pistillate scales hyaline with green midvein, ovate, 1.5–2.5 × 0.9–1.2 mm, not more than 1/2 length of perigynia, apex acute to cuspidate.
    Anthers 0.6–1.7 mm.
    Perigynia pale green, veinless or weakly veined abaxially, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–2.1 mm, body ovate, widest at 0.25–0.4 length of body, margins smooth or serrulate distally;
    beak 0.3–0.8 mm, apical teeth 0.1–0.3 mm.
    Achenes circular, 1–1.5 × 1–1.5 mm.