NameThatPlant.net: Carex tenera

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/13/22):
Carex tenera FAMILY Cyperaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Quill Sedge is a member of the section Ovales, and needs great care to identify. Apparently it has few well-defined characters. In the field the dark brown spikes are separated from each other (the terminal two may touch) and the inflorescence usually arches... Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex tenera FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-17-035:

Carex tenera FAMILY Cyperaceae

COMMON NAME:
Slender Sedge, Quill Sedge

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/13/22):
Carex tenera FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex tenera FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-17-035:
Carex tenera FAMILY Cyperaceae

4501

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Monoecious

Habitat: Low forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Rare

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal? Alternate, 3-ranked?

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Densely cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Perianth absent
3 stamens
Superior ovary
Unisexual

Inflorescences: spikes w both staminate & pistillate flowers (pistillate above)

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer?
Nutlet

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