Carex atherodes
Large awn sedge ( Carex atherodes )
The Great awn sedge ( Carex atherodes ) is a native to Central Europe Seggenart ( Carex ). It is a different eared sedge.
Description
The Great awn sedge is a perennial plant that grows with lockerrasig foothills. It is 60 to 90 (rarely 120) cm high. The stems are erect, obtuse triangular and thickened at the base. The leaves are up to 7 mm wide, flat and hairy hand, on the edge rough. The lowest leaf sheaths are black - brown and strong netzfaserig.
There are two to four male spikelets. The 3 to 4 female spikelets are up to 7 cm long, dichtblütig and are closer to each other. The lowermost spikelets is stalked. The lower bracts have a short, hairy, up to 1 cm long sheath. The bracts are longer than the stems. The bracts are pale green and ovate, the tip is long and serrated. The pen bears three scars. The flowering period extends from May to June.
The fruit is 7 mm long, brownish green and longitudinally veined. They are oval to conical, hairy unevenly, often glabrous. She has long, outwardly curved, rough beak teeth.
Dissemination
The species has a circumpolar distribution and is a submeridionales to borales continental Florenelement. It grows in fens and is rare.
In Germany it has probably indigenous only in forest swamps and sinkholes Brandenburg occurrence. Furthermore, in Hamburg an isolated occurrence has been found in the NSG Heuckenlock.