Carex bullata Schkuhr ex Willdenow (Q569)

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Carex bullata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae
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Carex bullata Schkuhr ex Willdenow
Carex bullata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Vesicariae

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    taxon/id/Carex bullata Schkuhr ex Willdenow
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    Carex bullata Schkuhr ex Willdenow
    Carex bullata
    Schkuhr ex Willdenow
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex ballonné (French)
    button sedge (English)
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    Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.
    acidic soil
    boggy meadows
    forests
    sandy pond
    lakeshores
    0–1100 m
    Culms trigonous in cross-section, 30–85 cm, scabrous angled distally.
    Leaves: basal sheaths reddish purple;
    ligules as wide as to longer than wide;
    blades light green, glabrous, flat to W-shaped, widest leaves 1.8–4.3 (–5) mm wide.
    Inflorescences 8–30 cm;
    proximal bract (3–) 9–35 cm, mostly equaling or exceeding inflorescence;
    proximal 1–3 spikes pistillate, erect or, sometimes, the proximal spreading, cylindric;
    terminal 1–3 spikes staminate.
    Pistillate scales narrowly ovate, 3.5–5.2 × 1.1–2.1 mm, shorter than perigynia, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute, awnless.
    Perigynia ascending to spreading, often green or straw colored, strongly 9–12-veined, veins running into beak, lanceovate, 5.9–10.2 × 2.4–3.3 mm, apex contracted;
    beak 2.4–4.2 (–4.8) mm, bidentate, finely scabrous at least near tip and on teeth, teeth straight, to 0.5–1.4 mm.
    Achenes brown, symmetric, not indented, trigonous, smooth.