Carex lasiocarpa

Female inflorescence of thread - sedge ( Carex lasiocarpa )

The thread - sedge ( Carex lasiocarpa ) is a native of Central Europe Seggenart ( Carex ). It is a different eared sedge.

Features

The thread - sedge is a perennial plant with a creeping rhizome and so far grows lockerrasig. It is 30 to 100 (rarely 120) cm high. The stems are erect and thin, rather plump, smooth, at most up slightly rough and topless leaves. The leaves are stiff, up to 100 cm long and thereby narrow ( 1 to 1.5 mm wide). You are rinnig rolled, hairless and gray-green. The basal leaf sheaths are light to dark brown, while crowded often reddish; they are falling apart.

There are 2 (rarely 1-3 ) female spikelets. These are up to 3 cm long and many flowered. They stand apart. The lowermost spikelets is stalked up to 2 cm long. There are 1 to 3 male spikelets that are up to 5 cm long. The lowest husk is herbaceous, dominated the inflorescence and has a short vagina. The bracts are dark brown and have a light skin edge. They are pointed or awned short, have a bright midvein and are the same length or shorter than the fruit. The pen bears three scars. Bloom time is May and June.

The fruit is 3.5 to 5 mm long and gray-green. It is oblong- ovate, slightly inflated, hairy, longitudinally veined and beaked short.

Dissemination

The species has a circumpolar distribution and is a temperate to boreal rates Florenelement. It is distributed in the Alps and their foothills, otherwise scattered in Germany. It grows in low lime and intermediate flat bogs, on the edge of raised bog lakes, ditches and hollows. It comes from the colline to the montane altitudinal zone before, up to 1500 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. ( Areal)
• Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil - Fitschen interactive. CD -ROM, Version 1.1, Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6.