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Published In: Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 1(1): 71, 369–370, t. 25, f. 1. 1824. (Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Project Data     (Last Modified On 7/9/2009)
Status: Native

 

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36. Carex cherokeensis Schwein. (wolftail)

Pl. 40 m–p; Map 152

Plants with short- to long-creeping, stout rhizomes, forming dense clumps, the sheaths of previous season’s basal leaves persisting and noticeable. Vegetative stems short, mostly reduced to basal clusters of leaves. Flowering stems 30–60 cm long, mostly longer than the leaves, bluntly trigonous, somewhat roughened toward the tip, brown to blackened at the base. Leaves all with well-developed blades, glabrous. Leaf blades 10–40 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, light green, mostly flat. Leaf sheaths concave at the tip, the ligule wider than long and U-shaped, the ventral side somewhat papery, pale green to white or often somewhat brownish tinged, the lowermost sheath bases brown to blackened. Terminal spike staminate, sometimes with the uppermost 1–2 spikes also staminate, or mostly staminate with a few pistillate flowers at the tip, the remaining 2–6 spikes pistillate. Staminate spikes 25–60 mm long, linear in outline, the scales 4.5–7.5 mm long, narrowly oblong-elliptic, rounded to bluntly pointed at the tip, white with pale green or light yellow midrib. Pistillate spikes 15–45 mm long, 6–9 mm wide, mostly long-stalked, erect to more commonly nodding or drooping, the scales 3.5–5.0 mm long, ovate, tapered to a pointed tip, white or light brownish tinged, the midrib sometimes light green. Perigynia 5–6 mm long, ovate in outline, somewhat inflated and bluntly triangular in cross-section, tapered to a short beak with 2 minute, papery teeth at the tip, rounded at the base, the sides with several irregular nerves, light green to nearly straw-colored, somewhat shiny. Fruits 2.0–2.5 mm long, yellowish brown to dark brown, with flat to slightly concave sides and somewhat thickened, blunt, lighter colored angles, the short beak straight or bent. April–June.

Uncommon in southern Missouri (Georgia to Texas north to North Carolina, Missouri, and Oklahoma). Bottomland forests, acid seeps, margins of sinkhole ponds, openings of dry upland forests, and dolomite glades; also on roadsides.

 
 


 

 
 
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