Carex heteroneura var. epapillosa

Carex epapillosa Mack.:
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.

Carex heteroneura var. epapillosa (Mack.) F.J. Herm.:
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.

Alta., B.C.; Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., Nev., Oreg., Utah, Wash., Wyo.

Canada

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Plants densely cespitose. Culms to 25–60(–100) cm, smooth. Leaves 2–6 mm wide. Inflorescences: proximal bracts shorter than or exceeding inflorescences; spikes oblong or clavate, 10–25 × 6–8 mm; proximal spikes separate, usually pendent, often long-pendunculate; distal ones overlapping, erect, contiguous, short-pendunculate; lateral 3–5 spikes pistillate; terminal spike gynecandrous, 1/4 or less staminate. Pistillate scales light to dark brown, margins hyaline, lanceolate, typically equaling or longer, sometimes shorter and narrower than perigynia, midvein dark, same color as body, inconspicuous, frequently raised, prominent, apex acute to short-mucronate. Perigynia ascending, light to dark brown with light brown margins, veinless, obovate or circular, 3.5–4 × 2–3 mm, apex abruptly beaked, smooth; beak 0.3–0.5 mm, shallowly or deeply bidentate, smooth. Achenes filling proximal 1/2 or less of perigynia.

Carex hagiana Kelso; C. heteroneura W. Boott var. epapillosa (Mackenzie) F. J. Hermann

Stream margins in open forest, moist subpalpine and alpine meadows; 2000–3700m.

Fruiting Jun–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: N2 - Imperiled

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure

Rounded Global Status Rank: TNR - Not Yet Ranked

Reasons: Carex heteroneura var. epapillosa ranges from California (at 1800-3800 meters in elevation) to British Columbia, and eastward to Montana and Colorado. It occurs in the higher mountains, in lodgepole pine to tundra communities.