Carex rupestris
Appearance
Carex rupestris | |
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On a mountainside in the Czech Republic | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Cyperaceae |
Genus: | Carex |
Species: | C. rupestris
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Binomial name | |
Carex rupestris | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Carex rupestris, called the curly sedge and rock sedge (names it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to temperate and subarctic North America, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, and Asia.[2] It prefers to grow on rocky ledges.[3]
Subtaxa
[edit]The following subspecies are currently accepted:[2]
- Carex rupestris subsp. altimontana T.V.Ebel
- Carex rupestris subsp. rupestris
References
[edit]- ^ Fl. Pedem. 2: 264 (1785)
- ^ a b c "Carex rupestris All". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ Chlebicki, Andrzej (2014). "Biogeographic relationships between fungi and selected glacial relict plants". Monographiae Botanicae. 90: 1–230. doi:10.5586/mb.2002.001.
Categories:
- Carex
- Flora of Europe
- Flora of the North Caucasus
- Flora of Siberia
- Flora of Kazakhstan
- Flora of the Russian Far East
- Flora of Mongolia
- Flora of Korea
- Flora of Subarctic America
- Flora of Western Canada
- Flora of Eastern Canada
- Flora of the Northwestern United States
- Flora of South Dakota
- Flora of Utah
- Flora of New Mexico
- Plants described in 1785
- Carex stubs