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
    0–3500 m
    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.