Carex capillaris Linnaeus (Q130)

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Carex capillaris is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Chlorostachyae
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Carex capillaris Linnaeus
Carex capillaris is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Chlorostachyae

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    taxon/id/Carex capillaris Linnaeus
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    Carex capillaris Linnaeus
    Carex capillaris
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    laiche capillaire (French)
    hair-like sedge (English)
    hair sedge (English)
    carex capillaire (French)
    Carex capillaire (English)
    mesic to moist tundra
    cliffs
    slopes
    meadows
    shores
    prairie sloughs
    sphagnum mats
    moist woods
    Greenland
    St. Pierre and Miquelon
    n Eurasia
    Leaf-blades flat or, sometimes, folded (in dwarf individuals), 2–9 cm × (0.75–) 1–4 mm.
    Terminal spike usually staminate, level with or overtopped by some lateral spikes, 4–10 × 0.7–1.4 mm.
    Lateral spikes 2–4, 6–20-flowered, 5–20 × 3–4 mm, the proximal usually drooping, often ± erect in dwarf arctic-alpine plants.
    Pistillate scales pale to medium brown with hyaline margins and paler midvein, ovate, 1.8–2.8 × 1–1.5 mm, apex obtuse or acute.
    Staminate scales pale-brown with hyaline margins and green or brown midvein, oblong, 2.5–3.2 × 1–1.2 mm, apex obtuse or acute.
    Perigynia veinless, except for 2 marginal veins, oblongovate, 2.3–3.5 × 0.8–1.2 mm;
    beak 0.5–1 mm, margins entire or serrulate.
    Achenes obovoid, 1.2–1.7 × 0.7–1 mm. 2n = 54.