Biology:Carex subspathacea

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Short description: Species of grass-like plant

Carex subspathacea
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Carex
Species:
C. subspathacea
Binomial name
Carex subspathacea
Wormsk. ex Hornem.[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Carex hoppneri Boott
  • Carex subspathacea f. stricta Drejer

Carex subspathacea, called Hoppner's sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to coastal salt marshes of the Arctic and northwest Pacific Oceans; Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, northern and far eastern Russia, Korea, and Japan.[2] It is grazed by snow geese (Anser caerulescens).[3]

References

  1. G.C.Oeder & al. (eds.), Fl. Dan. 9: 4, t. 1530 (1816)
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Carex subspathacea Wormsk. ex Hornem.". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:302475-1. 
  3. Kotanen, P.; Jefferies, R. L. (1987). "The Leaf and Shoot Demography of Grazed and Ungrazed Plants of Carex subspathacea". Journal of Ecology 75 (4): 961–975. doi:10.2307/2260307. 

Wikidata ☰ Q15583283 entry