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Carex careyana Dewey

Common Name: SEDGE
Coefficient of Conservatism: 10
Coefficient of Wetness: 5
Wetness Index: UPL
Physiognomy: Nt P-Sedge

Rich deciduous forests; rather local. A very distinctive species with large trigonous perigynia.

A collection purported to be from Bay View, Emmet Co., far north of the known range of this plant, is not mapped. The collection is in quite young fruit – but the date was noted as "July-August," impossible for a plant in this stage. That, and the vague data, suggest a label error.

This is somewhat like the more frequent, and much more widespread, Carex plantaginea, but the leaves, besides being somewhat narrower on average, are smooth, not "puckered."

 

R. Schipper

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Counties
Allegan
Berrien
Cass
Cass or Van Buren
Eaton
Emmet
Genesee
Gratiot
Hillsdale
Ingham
Ionia
Kalamazoo
Kent
Lenawee
Macomb
Midland
St. Clair
Van Buren
Washtenaw
Wayne

Citation:
MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE. A. A. Reznicek, E. G. Voss, & B. S. Walters. February 2011. University of Michigan. Web. March, 17, 2025
https://lsa-miflora-p.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/#/record/927