Carex baileyi Britton (Q568)

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Carex baileyi is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae
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Carex baileyi Britton
Carex baileyi is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae

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    taxon/id/Carex baileyi Britton
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    Carex baileyi Britton
    Carex baileyi
    Britton
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex de Bailey (French)
    Bailey's sedge (English)
    Carex de Bailey (English)
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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.
    stream shores
    sedge meadows
    open swamps
    ditches
    acidic soils
    Plants densely to loosely cespitose;
    rhizomes short, no more than 10 cm.
    Culms sharply trigonous in cross-section, 20–65 cm, scabrous-angled distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths reddish purple;
    ligules as long as to longer than wide;
    blades dark green, flat to W-shaped, widest leaves 2.4–4 (–5) mm wide, glabrous.
    Inflorescences 3–16 (–22) cm;
    proximal bract 12–40 (–55) cm, greatly exceeding inflorescence;
    proximal 1–2 (–3) spikes pistillate, proximal spreading to pendent, the distal erect, 9–14 (–15) mm thick, 2.5–3.5 times as long as wide;
    terminal 1 spike staminate.
    Pistillate scales narrowly oblong, 2.9–9.8 × 0.3–0.9 mm, as long as or shorter than perigynia, margins often ciliate, apex truncate to retuse, erose and prolonged into a scabrous awn.
    Staminate scales scabrous-awned, sometimes ciliate-margined.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, strongly 5–9-veined, veins separate nearly to beak apex, broadly ovate to nearly orbiculate, 4.8–6.5 (–7.6) × 1.8–2.7 mm, apex abruptly contracted;
    beak 2.2–4 mm, 0.7–1.3 length of body, bidentulate, smooth, teeth straight, 0.1–0.6 mm.
    Achenes brown, trigonous, papillose.