Carex buxbaumii

Buxbaum's sedge ( Carex buxbaumii )

Buxbaum's sedge ( Carex buxbaumii ) is a native of Central Europe Seggenart ( Carex ). It belongs to the different aged men sedges. The name honors the German botanist Johann Christian Buxbaum.

Description

Buxbaum's sedge is a perennial plant and is 20 to 70 cm high. It forms long streamers and grows lockerrasig. The stems are erect stiff and sharp triangular. The leaves are 2 to 4 mm wide, rough, acuminate and shorter than the stems. Their color is gray-green, the edges are slightly curled. The basal sheaths are black and tan and finely netzfasrig.

The terminal spikelet is club-shaped, 10-25 mm long and 5-10 mm wide. At the top are female, male flowers at the base, often many male. The two to three lateral spikelets are female. All spikelets same in shape and color, and stand apart. The lowest husk is longer than the inflorescence. The bracts are dark reddish brown, pointed to grannig. The Grannenspitze dominates the fruit.

The fruit is 3-4 mm long, veined indistinct, almost triangular, occupied by gray-green color and with conspicuous papillae. The fruit is abruptly narrowed into very short bidentate beak. The stamp has three scars.

Dissemination

The species occurs in Europe, West Siberia and America. She has a meridional montanes to boreales, subozeanisches area. It grows in peat meadows, in silted ponds and wet Molinia meadows. She is a Ordnungscharakterart the Molinia meadows ( Molinietalia caeruleae ).

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.