Carex atrofusca, the dark brown sedge or scorched alpine sedge, is a species of
sedge with a
circumpolar or circumboreal distribution in the northern hemisphere.
Description
Carex atrofusca is a perennial
cespitose loosely tufted sedge approximately 6–30 cm high. Sheaths present and persisting, brown - yellowish brown. Leaves are 3–4 mm in with approximately half as long as flowering stems. It is
monoecious
Monoecy (; adj. monoecious ) is a sexual system in seed plants where separate male and female cones or flowers are present on the same plant. It is a monomorphic sexual system alongside gynomonoecy, andromonoecy and trimonoecy.
Monoecy is conne ...
, with 2-4 spikes, top most one male and 1-3 female spikes nodding.
References
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atrofusca
Flora of Europe
Flora of North America
Plants described in 1801
Flora of Greenland