Carex parryana

Dewey

Amer. J. Sci. Arts 27: 239, fig. 65. 1835.

IllustratedEndemic
Synonyms: Carex arctica Dewey
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Treatment on page 408. Mentioned on page 402, 403, 407.

Plants loosely cespitose. Culms 10–35 cm, distally scabrous. Leaves 2–4 mm wide. Inflorescences: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescences; spikes erect, separate, proximal spikes occasionally distant, pedunculate, short-oblong or cylindric, 5–20 × 2–3 mm; lateral 2–5 spikes pistillate, distalmost often reduced to 1–3 perigynia, of varying lengths, proximal 1 or more as long as the terminal spike; terminal spike pistillate, gynecandrous (proportion of pistillate to staminate flowers variable, as few as 2 or 3 perigynia at summit), or wholly staminate. Pistillate scales light to dark-brown, distal margins broadly hyaline, ovate, as long and as wide as perigynia, midvein lighter colored than body, conspicuous, often raised, prominent, distally scabrous, apex rounded, acute or mucronate. Perigynia ascending, greenish yellow or brown, veinless, elliptic, 2–2.5 × 1–1.5 mm, apex abruptly beaked, papillose; beak to 0.2 mm, truncate or obscurely bidentate, serrulate. Achenes nearly filling body of perigynia.


Phenology: Fruiting May–Aug.
Habitat: Alkaline meadows, lake margins, roadsides, ditches
Elevation: 200–2500 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Man., Ont., Sask., Yukon, Alaska, Colo., Idaho, Mont., Nev., Utah, Wyo.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Carex parryana"
trigonous +
smaller +
papillose +
mucronate;acute;rounded +
David F. Murray +
cuneate +  and more or less rounded +
bidentate +  and truncate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br />) +
v--shaped +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
glumaceous +  and foliaceous +
2-ranked +  and arranged +
ascending +  and appressed +
scale-like +  and leaflike +
parallel +  and divergent +
terete +, rolled +  and plicate +
papillose +  and smooth +
red +  and purple +
round +  and trigonous +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, Ont. +, Sask. +, Yukon +, Alaska +, Colo. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Nev. +, Utah +  and Wyo. +
200–2500 m +
hypogynous +  and subtending +
biconvex +  and trigonous +
Alkaline meadows, lake margins, roadsides, ditches +
prophyllate +, pedunculate +  and pistillate +
multi-ranked +, 2-ranked +, 3-ranked +  and alternate +
basal +  and cauline +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
lighter colored +
prominent +, raised +  and conspicuous +
with (1-)3-6(-30) bristles and/or scales +
brown +  and greenish yellow +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
Fruiting May–Aug. +
2-3(-4)-carpellate +
3 (?) +  and 1 (?) +
scale-like;,;thread-like +
ladder-fibrillose +  and veined +
purple +, tinged red +  and dotted +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
Amer. J. Sci. Arts +
black without yellowbrown +  and brown +
adventitious +
light +  and dark-brown +
basal +  and proximal +
2-keeled +
cylindric +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
distalmost +
reduced +
1 +  and 3 +
septate +, hollow +  and solid +
compressed +, terete +  and trigonous +
2 +  and 3 +
papillate +
deciduous +
2-3(-4)-fid +
Carex arctica +
Carex parryana +
Carex sect. Racemosae +
species +
staminate +  and pistillate +
stoloniferous +, rhizomatous +  and long +
plant +  and cespitose +