Verified Carex stipata Muhlenberg ex Willdenow by Janet L. Wingate, 2/2009.
Loraine Yeatts
4786
2002-07-02
Khd Staff; Interns; Volunteers
United States of America, Colorado, Jefferson, Front Range, Deer Creek Canyon, Jefferson County Open Space, Stockwell property, just above junction with Mill Creek.
39.548554 -105.128889
13N 0488926E 4377661N
Certainty code: 1
1728 meters
5670 FT
In wet mud of riparian corridor with canopy of Padus Virginia var. melanocarpa, Negundo aceroides, Salix exigua, Rosa woodsii; associates include Juncus compressus, Poa pratensis; Veronica catenata, Mentha arvense, Trifolium repens, Medicago lupulina.
Clump-forming; uncommon in zone just above slow-moving or stagnant water.
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Jennifer Ackerfield, Head Curator of Biodiversity Collections (jennifer.ackerfield@botanicgardens.org)