Carex luzulina
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Carex luzulina | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Cyperaceae |
Genus: | Carex |
Species: | C. luzulina
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Binomial name | |
Carex luzulina |
Carex luzulina is a species of sedge known by the common name woodrush sedge.
Distribution
This sedge is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Wyoming, where it grows in wet habitat such as bogs and mountain meadows.
Description
Carex luzulina produces loose to dense clumps of rhizomed stems approaching 90 centimeters in maximum height. The inflorescence is made up of a few spikes of flowers with dark colored scales. The fruit is coated in a sac called a perigynium which is generally greenish with some dark purple coloration.
Varieties
- Carex luzulina var. ablata
- Carex luzulina var. atropurpurea
- Carex luzulina var. luzulina
See also
- Luzula - "Woodrush"
- Luzula comosa
- Luzula divaricata
- Luzula orestera
External links
- Calflora Database: Carex luzulina (wood rush sedge)
- Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Carex luzulina and varieties
- USDA Plants Profile: Carex luzulina
- Flora of North America
- UC Photos gallery — Carex luzulina
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with 'species' microformats
- Taxonbars with 20–24 taxon IDs
- Carex
- Flora of the Northwestern United States
- Flora of British Columbia
- Flora of California
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of Utah
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Plants described in 1868
- Taxa named by Stephen Thayer Olney
- Flora without expected TNC conservation status
- All stub articles
- Carex stubs