By Andrew L. Hipp, Rachel D. Davis, Merel R. Black, Theodore S. Cochrane
Sedges are one of the world’s so much different and ecologically very important plant households, with nearly 200 species in Wisconsin by myself. those grass-like vegetation, chanced on regularly in wetlands, are more and more well-liked by landscapers and residential gardeners. studying to spot sedges is difficult, notwithstanding, and the on hand technical publications to the sedge relatives could be overwhelming to a nonspecialist. box advisor to Wisconsin Sedges is a superbly illustrated advent to the most important sedge genus, Carex, which by myself makes up approximately 7 percentage of the plants of the higher Midwest. Written essentially for naturalists, wild plant fanatics, and local landscapers, this publication is exclusive in its available layout and illustrations. With this e-book, readers can discover ways to realize key constructions had to determine nearly one hundred fifty Carex species present in Wisconsin. writer Andrew Hipp exhibits tips to establish the various significant groupings of sedges which are utilized in publications to the genus in the course of the world. box consultant to Wisconsin Sedges contains details on habitat and diversity drawn from Hipp’s broad box event and inspection of millions of herbarium sheets. basically an identity advisor, the ebook is usually a necessary resource of habitat details for landscapers, gardeners, and restorationists.Features:• Keys to all Wisconsin Carex species, prepared through part• Distribution maps for all species• Species descriptions and specific habitat details for greater than 50 universal species• colour illustrations of complete crops or information for greater than 70 species• Appendix summarizing dominant Carex species through Wisconsin habitat• A thesaurus of phrases• waterproof paperback conceal
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Roots covered with a yellow, feltlike tomentum (may be faded in herbarium material); lateral spikes pendulous on slender stalks; pistillate scales as long as perigynia or longer; bogs (section Limosae) 5. 5 mm wide, margins involute; culms mostly aphyllopodic . . . . . . . . . . 19. C. limosa 5. Pistillate scales narrower than perigynia; leaf blades 1–4 mm wide, margins revolute; culms mostly phyllopodic . . . . . . . . 20. C. magellanica 4. Roots without yellow tomentum; lateral spikes erect to ascending, occasionally drooping (Carex scabrata [25]); pistillate scales shorter than to nearly equaling the perigynia in length; habitats various 6.
3. C. pauciXora 7. 5–5 mm long; fens and bogs throughout the state (section Leptocephalae [= Polytrichoideae]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. C. leptalea K EY B—“E UCARICES ” WITH PERIGYNIA PUBESCENT, NOT INFLATED , THE STYLES DECIDUOUS AND ABRUPTLY JOINTED THE ACHENE APEX ( I . , NOT IN THE “ BOTTLEBRUSH ” AND “ BLADDER ” SEDGES GROUP ) AT Perigynium pubescence has arisen independently in many Carex lineages. Consequently, the species in this key are a morphologically heterogeneous assemblage.
12. C. communis 15. Plants loosely cespitose (densely cespitose in C. albicans [18]); rhizomes typically slender, elongate, creeping; leaf blades mostly < 3 mm wide; basal leaf sheaths Wbrous in most species; habitats and distributions various Key to Carex Subgenus Carex 33 16. Perigynium bodies approximately globose 17. 9 mm long, ≥ half as long as the body; culms usually strongly scabrous beneath the inXorescence; rare in northeastern Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . .