Carex cusickii

Carex cusickii Mack. ex Piper & Beattie:
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

B.C.; Calif., Idaho, Mont., Oreg., Wash., Wyo.

Canada

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Global Range: Southern British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, east to Montana, south to western Wyoming and Central Idaho.

Culms 3–130 cm. Leaves: sheaths adaxially red dotted and usually copper colored at mouth, concave at mouth, prolonged 1–4(–6) mm beyond base of blade; ligules 4.1–13.7 mm; foliage leaf blades 10–90 cm × 2.5–5(–6) mm. Inflorescences bisexual or, occasionally, nearly or wholly unisexual, flexuous and interrupted, proximal 0–5 branches (or spikes) often separated, decompound, (2–)3–8 × 1–2 cm; basal branch (when present) with 5–21 spikes (or ca. 40 spikes in very condensed inflorescences); proximal internode 4–12 mm. Pistillate scales straw colored or reddish brown, 2.5–3.4 × 1.5–2.1 mm, as wide as and equaling perigynia. Perigynia spreading, straw colored to light or dark brown, strongly 7–11-veined abaxially, with median lengthwise groove near base, with or without membranous flap toward apex, lance-ovate (body widely ovate to oblate) in outline, plano- to biconvex, 2.4–3 × 1.3–1.8 mm, shiny; beak 1–1.3 mm. Achenes broadly ellipsoid to broadly trullate-ovate or obovate in outline, 1.4–1.6 × 0.7–1.1 mm.

Carex teretiuscula Goodenough var. ampla L. H. Bailey, Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 1: 53. 1889; C. obovoidea Cronquist

Marshes, wet meadows, swales, sphagnum bogs, and other wet places, especially shores (sometimes on floating mats or rotten logs), also ditches; 0–2100m.

Fruiting Jun–early Sep.

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 4
Specimens with Barcodes: 7
Species With Barcodes: 1

Canada

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure

Reasons: Data primarily/exclusively from Munz, 1973, Calif. Flora