The Morton Arboretum
The Field Museum
Chicago Botanic Garden
Additional Partners
Log In
New Account
Sitemap
Home
Search Collections
Map Search
Browse Images
Inventories
Aquatic Invasive Plant Guide
Naturalized flora of The Morton Arboretum
vPlants Checklist
Chicago Region Checklists and Inventories
Interactive Tools
vPlants Dynamic Key
Dynamic Checklist
Dynamic Key
Carex atlantica subsp. atlantica
Family:
Cyperaceae
Atlantic Sedge,
more...
prickly bog sedge
FNA
Indiana Flora
Resources
Peter W. Ball & A. A. Reznicek in Flora of North America (vol. 23)
Culms usually 25-110 cm. Leaves usually 1-4(-4.5) mm wide, widest usually 1.6-4(-4.5) mm wide. Inflorescences usually (1.5-)1.8-5.5 cm; spikes 3-8. Perigynia 2.3-3.8 × 1.5-3 mm, 1.1-1.7 times as long as wide; beak usually 0.6-1.25 mm.
Fruiting late spring-early summer. Bogs, acidic swamp forests, wet pinelands, wet, acidic soils; 0-1300 m; N.S.; Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., D.C., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va.
From Flora of Indiana (1940) by Charles C. Deam
Occasional in tamarack bogs, generally in sphagnum.
......
Indiana Coefficient of Conservatism: C = 10
Wetland Indicator Status: FACW
Open Interactive Map
Click to Display
100 Initial Images
- - - - -
View All Images