Carex hoodii Boott in W. J. Hooker (Q474)

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Carex hoodii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
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Carex hoodii Boott in W. J. Hooker
Carex hoodii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin

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    taxon/id/Carex hoodii Boott
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    Carex hoodii Boott
    Carex hoodii
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Hood (French)
    Hood's sedge (English)
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    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
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    Packer, J.G. & A.J. Gould. 2017.Vascular Plants of Alberta. Part 1: Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnospermes, and Monocots. University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
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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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    Harris S.A. & P.W. Ball. 2004. New records of Cyperaceae and Juncaceae from the Yukon Territory. Canadian Field-Naturalist 118 (2): 266-267.
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    Cody W., K.L. Reading & J.M. Line. 2003. Additions and range extensions to the vascular flora of the continental Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Field-Naturalist 117 (3): 448-465.
    dry to mesic grasslands
    rocky slopes
    screes
    forest openings
    0–3500 m
    Plants without conspicuous rhizomes.
    Culms 20–80 cm, 1.7–2 mm wide basally, 0.6–0.9 mm wide distally.
    Leaves: sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline;
    ligules less than 3 mm, wider than to as wide as long;
    widest leaf-blades 1–3.5 mm wide.
    Inflorescences capitate, with 4–8 spikes, individual spikes difficult to distinguish, 0.8–2 cm × 6–15 mm;
    proximal bracts to 1.5 cm;
    spikes with 5–10 ascending or spreading perigynia.
    Pistillate scales brown with green midvein, ovate, 3.8–4.3 × 1.3–2.2 mm, body as long as and slightly narrower than to as wide as perigynium, apex acute to short-awned.
    Anthers 1.5–2.2 mm.
    Perigynia dark-brown with green margins, veinless or obscurely veined abaxially, 3.2–5 × 1.4–2.5 mm, margins serrulate distally;
    beak 0.7–1.5 mm, apical teeth 0.2–0.6 mm.
    Achenes suborbiculate, 1.7–2.1 × 1.7–1.8 mm. 2n = 58, 60.