''Carex garberi'' is a species of
sedge
The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' wit ...
known by the common names elk sedge and Garber's sedge native to North America.
Distribution
It is native to northern North America, where it occurs throughout Canada and Alaska and at higher
elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum ยง Vert ...
s as far south as the
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...
of
California
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.
[Walsh, Roberta A. 1994]
''Carex garberi''.
In: Fire Effects Information System, nline U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory.[''Carex garberi''.]
Jepson Manual Treatment.
Description
This sedge produces loose clumps of stems estimated as up to 40
[''Carex garberi''.]
Flora of North America. or even 70 centimeters tall.
[ The leaves may be shorter or much taller than the stems, but are only a few millimeters wide. There are ]inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...
s at the tips and along the sides of the stem; the lateral ones are pistillate
Gynoecium (; ) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl of a flower; it consists of (one or more) ''pistils'' ...
, while the terminal ones usually have both male and female flowers. The scales covering the flowers are brown with a pale stripe through the midline.[''Carex garberi''.]
The Nature Conservancy.
This sedge grows in many types of forests and meadows, usually in wet places such as swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in ...
s or pools. It is common around the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. There are five lakes ...
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References
External links
USDA Plants ProfileCalPhotos Photo Gallery
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garberi
Plants described in 1935