Carex cespitosa

Grass - sedge ( Carex cespitosa )

The grass - sedge ( Carex cespitosa ) is a native to Central Europe Seggenart ( Carex ). It is a different eared sedge.

Description

The grass - sedge is a perennial plant with no prolonged foothills and forms dense clumps. It is 15 to 60 cm high. The stems are slender, thin and sharp triangular. The leaves are 2 to 3 mm wide, light green and rigid. They are the same length as the stem. The ligule is significantly higher than wide. The basal sheaths are purple, spreitenlos and shred finely meshed net- like.

The male and female spikelets are different. The spikelets are clearly separated. There is a male spikelets. Of the 1-3 female spikelets is the lowest 1-2 cm long and short-stalked, the top one is sitting.

The bracts of the female flowers are pointed black with a red-brown central strip and maximum. The pen bears two scars. The flowering period extends from April to May

The fruit is 2 mm long, round and hairless. It shows no wires and is ungeschnäbelt.

Occurrence

The species is native to Eurasia and is a submeridional - montanes to boreal, continental Florenelement. It grows in wet fen meadows and alder swamps on base-rich, but non-calcareous peat soils. In Germany it is scattered in front of the north, east and south and settled the submontane maximum height level to 1000 m.

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.