Carex aquatilis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Carex
- Species
- Carex aquatilis
- Scientific Name
- Carex aquatilis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Carex aquatilis
Carex aquatilis is a species of sedge known as water sedge and leafy tussock sedge. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout the northern reaches of the Northern Hemisphere. It grows in many types of mountainous and arctic habitat, including temperate coniferous forest, alpine meadows, tundra, and wetlands.
There are several varieties of this species, and it is somewhat variable in appearance. It produces triangular stems reaching heights between 20 cm (8 in) and 1.5 m (5 ft), and generally does not form clumps as some other sedges do. It grows from a dense rhizome network which produces a mat of fine roots thick enough to form sod, and includes aerenchyma to allow the plant to survive in low-oxygen substrates like heavy mud. The inflorescence bears a number of spikes with one leaflike bract at the base which is longer than the inflorescence itself. The fruits are glossy achenes, and although the plant occasionally reproduces by seed, most of the time it reproduces vegetatively, spreading via its rhizome. In fact, in any given year, most shoots produce no flowers. This perennial plant lives up to 10 years or more, can form peat as its rhizome system decomposes, and is sometimes used to revegetate areas where peat has been harvested.
...Carex aquatilis in languages:
- Bokmål
- nordlandsstarr
- Dutch
- Noordse zegge
- English
- water sedge
- Finnish
- vesisara
- French
- carex aquatique
- German
- Wasser-Segge
- Japanese
- クロアゼスゲ
- Lithuanian
- Vandeninė viksva
- Russian
- Осока водяная
- Swedish
- norrlandsstarr
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Carex acuta
- Carex alligata
- Carex altaica
- Carex angustata
- Carex aperta
- Carex aphyllopus
- Carex appendiculata
- Carex aquatilis
- Carex arcatica
- Carex barbarae
- Carex bigelowii
- Carex borealihinganica
- Carex buekii
- Carex caespititia
- Carex cespitosa
- Carex chillanensis
- Carex cinerascens
- Carex crinita
- Carex cryptocarpa
- Carex darwinii
- Carex decidua
- Carex elata
- Carex eleusinoides
- Carex emoryi
- Carex enanderi
- Carex endlichii
- Carex ensifolia
- Carex forrestii
- Carex fumosimontana
- Carex gaudichaudiana
- Carex geminata
- Carex gynandra
- Carex haydenii
- Carex hermannii
- Carex interrupta
- Carex kauaiensis
- Carex kelloggii
- Carex kiotensis
- Carex kurdica
- Carex lenticularis
- Carex lugens
- Carex lyngbyei
- Carex maquensis
- Carex melinacra
- Carex micrantha
- Carex middendorffii
- Carex minxianica
- Carex mitchelliana
- Carex muliensis
- Carex nebrascensis
- Carex nigra
- Carex nudata
- Carex obnupta
- Carex orbicularis
- Carex paleacea
- Carex paleacea × stricta
- Carex panormitana
- Carex platysperma
- Carex plectocarpa
- Carex prolongata
- Carex ramenskii
- Carex randalpina
- Carex recta
- Carex reuteriana
- Carex rufina
- Carex salina
- Carex satakeana
- Carex schmidtii
- Carex schottii
- Carex scopulorum
- Carex senta
- Carex shandanica
- Carex stricta
- Carex subspathacea
- Carex suifunensis
- Carex taldycola
- Carex tegulata
- Carex ternaria
- Carex thunbergii
- Carex torta
- Carex trinervis
- Carex vacillans
- Carex zhonghaiensis
- Carex × bolina
- Carex × crinitoides
- Carex × elytroides
- Carex × exsalina
- Carex × flavicans
- Carex × grantii
- Carex × haematolepis
- Carex × kenaica
- Carex × limula
- Carex × mendica
- Carex × neobigelowii
- Carex × neofilipendula
- Carex × neorigida
- Carex × persalina
- Carex × reducta
- Carex × saxenii
- Carex × spiculosa
- Carex × subpaleacea
- Carex × subreducta































































































































































