Carex grayi J. Carey (Q295)

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Carex grayi is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Lupulinae
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Carex grayi J. Carey
Carex grayi is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Lupulinae

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    taxon/id/Carex grayi J. Carey
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    Carex grayi J. Carey
    Carex grayi
    J. Carey
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Gray (French)
    Gray's sedge (English)
    Asa Gray's sedge (English)
    common bur sedge (English)
    Gray's bur sedge (English)
    bur sedge (English)
    morning star sedge (English)
    Carex de Gray (English)
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    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/
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    Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
    wet deciduous
    mesic to wet deciduous forests
    forest openings
    fine alluvial
    lacustrine deposits
    Plants cespitose or not, short-rhizomatous.
    Culms solitary or not, erect, (25–) 40–90 (–110) cm.
    basal sheaths purplish red;
    sheath of distal leaf 0–1.5 (–2.5) cm;
    ligules rounded, 2.5–6 mm;
    blades 12–34 cm × 4–11 mm.
    Inflorescences 2.5–17 cm;
    peduncles of proximal pistillate spikes 0.7–3.5 cm, basal 2 peduncles 1–4 (–12) cm apart;
    peduncle of terminal spike 0.5–6 cm;
    bracts leafy, usually sheathless, blades 8–26 cm × 2–7 mm.
    Spikes: proximal pistillate spikes 1–2 (–3), densely (4–) 8–35-flowered, separate to aggregated, globular, 2.5–4.2 × 2.6–4.1 cm;
    terminal staminate spike 1, 0.5–6.5 cm × 1–4 mm.
    Pistillate scales 1–5-veined, lanceolate-ovate to ovate-orbicular, 4–11 × 2–4.2 mm, apex obtuse to awned, awn to 7 mm, rough.
    Anthers 3, 2.5–4.8 mm.
    Perigynia radiating out in all directions, strongly 16–25-veined, rhombic-ovoid, 12.5–20 × 4–8 mm, base cuneate, dull, glabrous or, sometimes, hispidulous;
    beak poorly defined, 1.5–3 mm.
    Achenes sessile, ellipsoid to obovoid, faces convex, angles not thickened, 3.3–4.8 × 2.6–3.7 mm;