Carex ericetorum

Illustration of the bird foot - sedge ( Carex ornithopoda ) ( left) and Heath Sedge ( Carex ericetorum ) (right)

The Heath Sedge ( Carex ericetorum ) is a native to Central Europe Seggenart ( Carex ). It is a different eared sedge.

Description

The heath sedge is a perennial plant and forms spurs. It is 10 to 30 cm high. The stems are truncated triangular and slightly rough. The leaves are evergreen. They are 2-2 mm wide, dark green and about the same length as the stem. The basal sheaths are yellow-brown, sometimes purple crowded; they are not netzfaserig.

There are 1-3 female spikelets. You are dichtblütig, sitting and upright. There is a male spikelets. The lowest husk is trockenhäutig and widened at the base. It has almost no vagina and would dwarf the spikelets not usually. The bracts are obtuse, broadly obovate, dark reddish brown in color with white dry skin edge. A median strip is missing on the front end, the support sheet is ciliated often frayed. The pen bears three scars. Flowering period is March and April.

The fruit is 2 to 2.5 mm long, hairy. It is obovate to spherical. The beak is short bidentate and trimmed.

Dissemination

The species is native to Europe and western Siberia and is one occurring in submeridional - montane to boreal, continental climate plant. It grows in sub-continental nations, and dry pine forests. In Germany it is scattered, rare in the southwest, distributed in the Northeast.

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.
• Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil - Fitschen interactive. CD -ROM, Version 1.1, Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6.