Carex nigromarginata

Schweinitz

Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 1: 68. 1824.

IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 542. Mentioned on page 534, 541, 543.

Plants densely cespitose; rhizomes ascending to erect, reddish-brown, 0–10 mm, stout. Culms 8–27 cm, scabrous distally; bases (remnants of old leaves) strongly fibrous. Leaf-blades green, greatly exceeding culms, 1.4–4 mm wide, herbaceous, papillose to scabrous abaxially, papillose to scabrous adaxially. Inflorescences with both staminate and pistillate spikes; peduncles of staminate spikes 0.3–0.8 mm; proximal cauline bracts leaflike, usually shorter than inflorescences. Spikes: proximal pistillate spikes 2–3 (basal spikes 0); cauline spikes overlapping, proximal 2 separated by less than 7 mm, with 6–15 perigynia; staminate spikes 5.3–10 × 1.1–2.3 mm. Scales: pistillate scales pale to, usually, dark reddish-brown to purplish brown, with similarly colored or narrow white margins, ovate to lanceolate, 2.9–3.7 × 1.2–2 mm, equaling or exceeding perigynia, apex acute to acuminate or cuspidate; staminate scales ovate, 3–4.3 × 1–1.8 mm, apex obtuse to acute or acuminate. Anthers 1.4–2.6 mm. Perigynia pale green, veinless, ellipsoid, 2.8–3.6 × 1–1.3 mm, longer than wide; beak straight, pale green, 0.7–1 mm, weakly ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.1–0.4 mm. Stigmas 3. Achenes brown, ellipsoid, obtusely trigonous in cross-section, 1.4–2 × 0.9–1.2 mm. 2n = 36.


Phenology: Fruiting early Apr–late Jun.
Habitat: Acidic soils of rocky, dry woods, thickets, and clearings, in partial shade of mixed hardwood-pine forests or full sun along open roadsides and clearing edges, often adjacent to streams
Elevation: 10–800 m

Distribution

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Ont., Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., D.C., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., Mass., Miss., Mo., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Va., W.Va.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"shortened" is not a number.

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0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
trigonous;ellipsoid +
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0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.26 cm2.6 mm <br />0.0026 m <br />) +
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glabrous +  and pubescent +
obtuse;acute or acuminate +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br />) +
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rounded +  and tapering +
ciliate-serrulate +
straight +
bidentate +  and bent +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
v--shaped +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
brown +  and red +
round +  and trigonous +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (27 cm270 mm <br />0.27 m <br />) +
Ont. +, Ala. +, Ark. +, Conn. +, Del. +, D.C. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Ky. +, Mass. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +, Ohio +, Pa. +, R.I. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Va. +  and W.Va. +
10–800 m +
open +, pistillate +  and staminate +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
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prophyllate +, pedunculate +, staminate +, , +  and pistillate +
papillose;scabrous abaxially +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
white +, narrow +  and colored +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
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0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br />) +
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2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
scale-like +  and filiform +
Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York +
reddish-brown +
ascending +  and erect +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
adventitious +
staminate +  and pistillate +
dark reddish-brown +  and purplish brown +
basal +  and proximal +
ovate;ovate;lanceolate +
exceeding perigynia +  and equaling +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br />) +
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0.11 cm1.1 mm <br />0.0011 m <br /> (0.23 cm2.3 mm <br />0.0023 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
papillate +
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2-3(-4)-fid +
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0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
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