Carex punctata

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Carex punctata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. punctata
Binomial name
Carex punctata

Carex punctata, the dotted sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex , native to Macaronesia, northwest Africa, southern, central, and northern Europe, and Turkey. [2] [3] Its chromosome number is 2n=68. [4]

Subtaxa

The following varieties are currently accepted: [2]

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<i>Carex lanceolata</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Carex albula</i> Species of grass-like plant

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<i>Carex viridula</i> Species of grass-like plant

Carex viridula, known as little green sedge, green sedge, or greenish sedge, is a small flowering plant native to North America, Europe, Asia, and Morocco.

<i>Carex annectens</i> Species of grass-like plant

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<i>Carex elata</i> Species of flowering plant in the sedge family

Carex elata, is a species of tussock-forming, grass-like plant in the Cyperaceae family. It is native to all of Europe, the Atlas Mountains of Africa, Turkey, Iran and Central Asia.

<i>Carex stipata</i> Species of grass-like plant

Carex stipata, variously called the prickly sedge, awl-fruited sedge, awlfruit sedge, owlfruit sedge, swamp sedge, sawbeak sedge, stalk-grain sedge and common fox sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Canada, the United States, China, Korea, Japan, and Far Eastern Russia. It is a wetland obligate.

<i>Carex breviculmis</i> Species of grass-like plant

Carex breviculmis, called the Asian shortstem sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Asia from the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, north as far as Khabarovsk Krai, and Malesia, New Guinea, Australia, Norfolk Island and New Zealand. It has been introduced to the US state of Mississippi. Typically found in forests, it is quite shade tolerant.

<i>Carex muehlenbergii</i> Species of grass-like plant

Carex muehlenbergii is a species of flowering plant, it is a type of sedge. It is a grass-like plant in the family Cyperaceae. Its common names include sand sedge, Muhlenberg's sedge.

<i>Carex trisperma</i> Species of flowering plant

Carex trisperma, the three-seeded sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Canada, Greenland, and the northeastern United States. It is typically found in acidic bogs within forests.

<i>Carex tribuloides</i> Species of flowering plant

Carex tribuloides, the blunt broom sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to the eastern United States, eastern Canada, and Veracruz in Mexico, and introduced in Sweden. It is an important food for soras during their spring migration.

<i>Carex tristachya</i> Species of flowering plant

Carex tristachya, called the shiny-spike sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to south-central and southeast China, Korea, Japan, the Ryukyus, the Philippines, Borneo, and New Guinea. Its seeds are dispersed by ants.

<i>Carex communis</i> Species of plant

Carex communis, the fibrous-root sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to central and eastern Canada and the central and eastern United States. Its seeds are dispersed by ants.

<i>Carex laxiculmis</i> Species of grass-like plant

Carex laxiculmis, the creeping sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to Ontario, Canada, and the central and eastern United States. As with most species of sedge, it prefers to grow in shady, wet areas. Its cultivar 'Hobb', sold under the trade designation Bunny Blue, is available from commercial nurseries.

<i>Carex deweyana</i> Species of sedge

Carex deweyanaDewey's sedge, short-scale sedge, is a species of sedge native to Canada and the United States.

<i>Carex michauxiana</i> Species of plant

Carex michauxiana, also known as Michaux's sedge, carex de Michaux or yellowish sedge in Canada, is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to eastern parts of North America and parts of Asia.

References

  1. Agrost. Helv. 2: 152 (1811)
  2. 1 2 "Carex punctata Gaudin". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  3. "Carex punctata dotted sedge". The Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  4. Escudero, M.; Valcarcel, V.; Vargas, P.; Luceno, M. (2008). "Evolution in Carex L. sect. Spirostachyae (Cyperaceae): A molecular and cytogenetic approach". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 7 (4): 271–291. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2006.08.006.