Carex aquatilis

Water sedge ( Carex aquatilis )

The water sedge ( Carex aquatilis ) is a native of Central Europe Seggenart ( Carex ). It is a different eared sedge.

Description

The water - sedge is a perennial plant with elongated streamers and grows loose horst -shaped. It is 30 to 90 (rarely 130 ) cm high. The stems are truncated triangular and have planar faces. Below the inflorescences they are rough. The leaves are 3-7 mm wide and longer than the stem. You are not curved back and on the bottom are glossy green on the upper surface dull gray-green. They are simply folded. The basal sheaths have spreading, are purple-brown to reddish brown and will not fray like a net.

Male and female spikelets are different. The spikelets are apart. There is one to four and three to five male female spikelets. The female is 40 to 70 mm long, dichtblütig and short-stalked. You stand upright and overlap each other. The lowest husk is longer than the inflorescence. Also, the upper bracts have at least a short leaf blade.

The bracts of the female flowers are purple or copper -colored. They have a bright keel and a white skin edge and are obtuse. The pen bears two scars.

The fruit is 2-3 mm long, green, glabrous and almost aderlos. She has slightly projecting rim edges and wider than its bract. Most fruits are sterile. You have no beak.

Occurrence

The species is widespread and is a circumpolar temperat to Arctic, sub-continental Florenelement. It grows in old river beds, mud streams. In Germany it is limited to the north-west of Lower Saxony. Otherwise, it is known from the Netherlands and East Prussia.

Documents

• Rudolf Schubert, Klaus Werner, Hermann Meusel (ed.): Exkursionsflora the territories of the GDR and the FRG. Founded by Werner Roth painter. 13-14. Edition. Volume 2: vascular plants, people and knowledge, Berlin 1987/1988, ISBN 3-06-012539-2 (Area ).
• Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil - Fitschen interactive. CD -ROM, Version 1.1, Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6.