Carex meadii Dewey (Q380)

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Carex meadii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Paniceae
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Carex meadii Dewey
Carex meadii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Paniceae

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    taxon/id/Carex meadii Dewey
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    Carex meadii Dewey
    Carex meadii
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Mead (French)
    Mead's sedge (English)
    Mead's stiff sedge (English)
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    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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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/
    Mexico
    calcareous prairies
    cedar glades
    open woodlands
    moist depressions
    50–2400 m
    Plants colonial, long-rhizomatous, vegetative shoots widely scattered and inconspicuous from deep rhizomes.
    Culms 15–60 cm, usually scabrous distally.
    Leaves: proximal sheaths with blades, brownish, 1.5–5 mm diam.;
    ligules 0.4–3.6 mm, 0.4–1.2 times wider than long;
    blades gray-green, flat, 7–15 cm × 2–5 (–7) mm, folded near bases, margins often revolute, herbaceous.
    Inflorescences 4–25 cm, 1–1.6 times as long as proximal bracts;
    proximal bract 2.5–20 cm, sheath 0.5–4 cm, blade 2–16 cm;
    pistillate spikes ovoid to cylindric, 6–37 × 3.5–8 mm;
    lateral spikes erect or ascending on stiff peduncles.
    Pistillate scales purple-tinged or brown, apex awned or obtuse.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, densely arranged, yellow-green to brown, 2.3–5 × 1.25–2.5 mm, minutely papillose;
    beak minute, bent.
    Achenes light to dark-brown, 2.7–4 × 1.7–2.2 (–2.5) mm.