| Carex bullata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex |
| Species: | C. bullata |
| Binomial name | |
| Carex bullata | |
| Synonyms | |
Carex greenii Boeckeler | |
Carex bullata is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to south eastern parts of Canada and eastern parts of the United States. [1] It has the common name of the button sedge. [2]
The name 'bullata' is from the Latin 'bullatus' which means inflated, referring to the inflated perigynia. After being discovered in 1894 it was collected in Long Island through 1929, which was resumed in 1959 when NY State Museum collected it again. [3]
The stem leaf blade width is between 1.8 to 5 millimeters. The lowest bract has no sheath. The lowest spike has a peduncle. The highest spike has only staminate flowers. The perigynium has no hairs and is from 5.9 to 10.2 millimeters in length. The leaf sheath is tinted pink, red or purple. The leaf sheath is smooth and hairless. [2]
It has a global rank of G5 meaning secure. It was last reviewed in 1997. It also has many local ranks in Canada and the US. It has a rank of S5 meaning secure in New Jersey, a rank of S4 in Nova Scotia and Virginia, a rank of S3 in Delaware, Maryland, and Tennessee, a rank of S2 in Maine and North Carolina, and a rank of S1 in Arkansas, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, and Pennsylvania. [4]
In New England, it is found in all counties in Rhode Island, all counties in Massachusetts expect Berkshire county, all counties in Connecticut expect Fairfield and Hartford, Hillsborough and Strafford county in New Hampshire, and York, Cumberland, Oxford, and Penobscot county in Maine. [2]
In Tennessee, It is found in Johnson county, Cannon county, Coffee county, Grundy county, Franklin county, Moore county, and Lincoln county. [5]
In New York, it is found in Nassau county, Orange county, Queens county, Richmond county, Rockland county, and Suffolk county. [6]
It is found on stream margins with red maple and sedge marsh. Wet pine barrens along railroads tracks is also a common habitat. They can also be found in wet, muddy banks streams in a sedge meadow. It is associated with the following Carex species, Carex barrattii, Carex comosa, Carex scoparia, Carex silicea, Carex stricta, and Carex vestita. [3] It is commonly found at elevations between 0 to 1,000 feet. [7]
Eriophorum vaginatum, the hare's-tail cottongrass, tussock cottongrass, or sheathed cottonsedge, is a species of perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the sedge family Cyperaceae. It is native to bogs and other acidic wetlands throughout the Holarctic Kingdom. It is a 30–60 cm high tussock-forming plant with solitary spikes.
Carex atherodes is a species of sedge known by the common name wheat sedge. It is native to Eurasia and much of North America including most of Canada and the United States. It is a very common wetland plant across the American Midwest and areas west. It grows in moist and wet habitat, such as marshes and moist prairie land, and it may grow in shallow water. This sedge produces triangular, hollow stems 30 to 120 centimeters tall. The leaves are hairy, especially on the lower parts, and the leaf sheath is tinted with reddish purple. The inflorescence is up to 60 centimeters long and made up of several spikes; those spikes near the tip are usually staminate, and those lower in the inflorescence are usually pistillate. The tip of each fruit has two or more long, thin teeth.
Carex molesta is a species of sedge known by the common name troublesome sedge. It is native to eastern and central North America, where it grows in varied wet and dry habitats, performs equally well in full sun and partial shade, including disturbed areas such as roadsides. It is an introduced species and often a weed in California.
Carex pensylvanica is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family commonly called Pennsylvania sedge. Other common names include early sedge, common oak sedge, and yellow sedge.
Carex riparia, the greater pond sedge, is a species of sedge found across Europe and Asia. It grows in a variety of wet habitats, and can be a dominant species in some swamps. It is Britain's largest Carex, growing up to 130 cm tall, with glaucous leaves up to 160 cm long. It hybridises with a number of other Carex species, including the closely related Carex acutiformis – the lesser pond sedge. A variegated cultivar is grown as an ornamental grass.
Carex hirta, the hairy sedge or hammer sedge, is a species of sedge native across Europe. It has characteristic hairy leaves and inflorescences, and is the type species of the genus Carex.
Carex spicata is a species of sedge in the genus Carex.
Carex oronensis is a species of sedge known by the common name Orono sedge. It is endemic to Maine in the United States, where it occurs mainly in the Penobscot River Valley. It is the only plant that is endemic to the state of Maine. The type locality is Orono.
Carex roanensis is a species of sedge known by the common name Roan Mountain sedge. It is native to North America, where it can be found in the southern Appalachian Mountains. It was first collected on Roan Mountain in Tennessee in 1936. It was not collected again for fifty years. Now it is known from Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Carex lacustris, known as lake sedge, is a tufted grass-like perennial of the sedge family (Cyperaceae), native to southern Canada and the northern United States. C. lacustris us an herbaceous surface-piercing plant that grows in water up to 50 cm (1.6 ft) deep, and grows 50–150 cm (1.6–4.9 ft) tall. It grows well in marshes and swampy woods of the boreal forest, along river and lake shores, in ditches, marshes, swamps, and other wetland habitat. It grows on muck, sedge peat, wet sand or silt, in filtered or full sunlight.
Carex merritt-fernaldii, or Fernald's sedge, is a species of sedge from northeastern North America. It was first described by Kenneth Mackenzie in 1923. It is named after botanist Merritt Fernald.
Carex rosea, the rosy sedge, is a flowering plant and part of the family Cyperaceae. Synonyms for Carex rosea include Carex concoluta, and Carex flaccidula. It is native to central and eastern North America and it exists in wet to dry soils. Carex rosea can be found in shores of streams and bottomlands, as well as ponds. It is known to have good adaptations to dry-shade locations. It is an evergreen plant which is easy to grow.
Carex rariflora, the looseflower alpine sedge, is a species of plant in the sedge family. It is found in the United States in Alaska and Maine, and in Canada in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. In these regions, it is ranked as an obligate hydrophyte in establishing wetland areas. It prefers wet environments such as open bogs, meadows, seepage slopes, and low-elevation heath tundra. This perennial grass, which can be up to 3 feet tall, has fibrous roots, and holds all perennial organs underground. The leaves are alternate, long, narrow, and simple, with parallel veins. They grow in dense clusters, and the dead leaves are found at the base of the plant. The plant blooms and fruits in the summer. All flowers are monoecious and unisexual, producing a spike inflorescence. All inflorescences are subtended by shorter, proximal bracts.
Carex reznicekii, known as Reznicek's sedge, is a species of Carex native to North America. It is a perennial. Described initially from a New York population, this species was named in 2006 in honor of the botanist Anton Reznicek, a specialist in the genus Carex.
Carex brevior, known as shortbeak sedge and plains oval sedge, is a species of sedge native to North America. The specific epithet brevior means "shorter" in Latin.
Carex baileyi is a sedge in section Vesicariae the genus Carex native to the Appalachian mountains in Eastern North America. It is commonly called Bailey's sedge. Carex baileyi was named in honor of Liberty Hyde Bailey by its discoverer, Nathaniel_Lord_Britton.
Carex ozarkana, the Ozark sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to the U.S. states of Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
Carex drepanorhyncha is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to South-Central China. It has three common names, which are, Drepanorhyncha Sedge, Drepanorhyncha Fox Sedge, and Drepanorhyncha Wood Sedge. It also has a Chinese common name of 镰喙薹草, or lián huì tái cǎo, meaning sicklebill.
Carex godfreyi is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to south eastern parts of the United States. It's common name is Godfrey's sedge.
Carex adelostoma is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to the subarctic areas, including Scandinavia, Russia, Canada, and Alaska. A common name is circumpolar sedge.
