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Carex eburnea - (image 1 of 3)

Taxonomy

Family: Cyperaceae

Section Albae   

Habitat

Calcareous soil.

Associates

Distribution

Newfoundland to British Columbia, south to VA, AL, NE, and TX.

Morphology

Densely tufted with long, slender rhizomes; stems thin, to 30 cm. Leaves shorter than stems, involute, to 0.5 mm. Spikes subtended by short bladeless sheaths; pistillate spikes 2-3, 3-6 mm long, 2-6 flowered, on long erect peduncles exceeding the terminal staminate spikes; bracts of pistillate spikes bladeless, consisting of sheath only. Pistillate scales ovate, shorter than perigynia, pale with a narrow green midvein; perigynium beakless, starting green and becoming dark brown, 1.5-2 mm, few-nerved, smooth, filled by the achene, with a conic beak 0.2 mm. Staminate spike sessile; leaf blade under 2 mm wide, perigynia 1.5-2 mm, beakless. Achene trigonous; stigmas 3; style deciduous.

Notes

Flowers May

Wetland indicator: Facultative Upland-

The specific epithet mean "ivory". 

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

Swink, F. and G. Wilhelm. 1994. Plants of the Chicago Region.
Indiana Academy of Science. The Morton Arboretum. Lisle, Illinois.

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